Return to Coolami

Eleanor Dark

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Allen & Unwin
01 June 2012

Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Australian Fiction

AUSTRALIAN CLASSIC FICTION

Winner of the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal

Set in the 1930s, Return to Coolami is the story of a two-day motor car trip from Sydney, across the Blue Mountains to the country property, Coolami.

For each of the occupants of the shiny green Madison tourer, it becomes an interior journey: Susan and Bret, recently bound together in a marriage which seems to have little future, painfully grope towards some understanding of the events that have brought them together; Susan's parents contemplate their thirty-seven years of matrimony and wonder if their youthful yearnings and aspirations have been too easily set aside. Along the way, they discover a new understanding of themselves and each other.

'A thriller that belongs to the world of literature it deals with real life and real people.' H.M. Green, A History of Australian Literature

By: Eleanor Dark
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 190mm, Width: 126mm,
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781743312032
ISBN 10: 1743312032
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 June 2012
Recommended Age: From 0 to 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Eleanor Dark was born in 1901 and educated in Sydney. She is one of Australia's most highly regarded writers of the 1930s and '40s. Dark began writing in her childhood and contributed verse, short stories and articles to various magazines. Her first novel, Slow Dawning, was published in 1932. A further nine novels followed: Prelude to Christopher (1934), Return to Coolami (1936), Sun Across the Sky (1937), Waterway (1938), The Little Company (1945), Lantana Lane (1959), and the trilogy of historical novels The Timeless Land (1941), Storm of Time (1948) and No Barrier (1953). Dark also wrote short fiction, essays, radio scripts and poetry. She was married to Eric Dark, a medical doctor and leftist social thinker. She died in 1985, and Varuna, her house in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, is now a writers' centre.