Drylands

Name: Drylands
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ISBN: 9781925603576

Thea Astley, Emily Maguire

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Text Publishing Company
30 April 2018

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Australian Fiction

First published in 1999, Drylands was Thea Astley's fourth and final Miles Franklin winner.

In the dying town of Drylands, Janet Deakin sells papers to lonely locals. At night, in her flat above the newsagency, she attempts to write a novel for a world in which no one reads - 'full of people, she envisaged, glaring at a screen that glared glassily back.' Drylands is the story of the townsfolk's harsh, violent lives. Trenchant and brilliant, Thea Astley's final novel is a dark portrait of outback Australia in decline.

By: Thea Astley
Introduction by: Emily Maguire
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781925603576
ISBN 10: 1925603571
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 30 April 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active