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  • A Descant for Gossips

    de Thea Astley ...
    Series series UQP Modern Classics
    This stylish reissue of one of Thea Astley's finest early novels is a classic story of small-town life. Two schoolteachers are drawn to each other by their concern for a lonely young girl. As long as Vinny Lalor could remember she had been on the fringe of things—in her family and at school. But as the final term of the year progresses, rumor and malice mount against Vinny and her two teachers, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Well Dressed Explorer

    de Thea Astley ...
    Series Libro 13 - Untapped
    Pompous, vain and a self-professed charmer, George Brewster moves from one unfulfilling journalism job to the next, one empty relationship to another, his faithful wife and daughter ever the afterthought. The Well Dressed Explorer is the story of a man of his time, but as a story of toxic workplaces and an Australia where comfort and self-interest breed men like George, it might well feel familiar ... Leer más

    $8.58 USD

  • The Acolyte

    de Thea Astley ...
    Series Libro 14 - Untapped
    Jack Holberg is a blind musician and composer from Queensland who becomes world famous. Paul Vesper, ‘the acolyte’ of the title, tells the great man’s story—and his own—in this dark, funny portrait of an artistic genius and those who worshipped, and suffered, at his feet.First published in 1972, The Acolyte won the Miles Franklin Literary Award that same year.Thea Astley, AO (1925–2004) won the ... Leer más

    $8.58 USD

  • Beachmasters

    de Thea Astley ...
    Series Libro 15 - Untapped
    A story of rebellion and loyalty on a small Pacific Island where one man becomes caught in a struggle for independence from colonial rule.Written in 1985, and awarded the ALS Gold Medal the following year, Beachmasters remains relevant in our globalised, post-colonial society, offering pertinent observations about politics, nationalism and race.Thea Astley AO (1925–2004) was a multi-award-winning ... Leer más

    $8.58 USD

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    The Well Dressed Explorer

    de Thea Astley ...
    Narrado por Adam Fitzgerald ...

    Completo

    10 hora 3 minutos

    Pompous, vain and a self-professed charmer, George Brewster moves from one unfulfilling journalism job to the next, one empty relationship to another, his faithful wife and daughter ever the afterthought. THE WELL DRESSED EXPLORER is the story of a man of his time - but as a story of toxic workplaces and an Australia where comfort and self-interest breed men like George, it might well feel ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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    Drylands

    de Thea Astley ...
    Narrado por Beverley Dunn ...

    Completo

    7 hora 10 minutos

    In her flat above Drylands' newsagency, Janet Deakin is writing a book for the world's last reader. Little has changed in her 50 years, except for the coming of cable TV. Loneliness is almost a religion, and still everyone knows your business. But the town is being outmanoeuvred by drought and begins to empty, pouring itself out like water into sand. Small minds shrink even smaller in the vastness ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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    Hunting the Wild Pineapple

    de Thea Astley ...
    Narrado por James Wright ...

    Completo

    6 hora 1 minutos

    Leverson, the narrator at the centre of these stories, calls himself a 'people freak'. Seduced by north Queensland's sultry beauty and unique strangeness, he is as fascinated by the invading hordes of misfits from the south as by the old established Queenslanders. Leverson's ironical yet compassionate view makes every story, every incident, a pointed example of human weakness - or strength. ... Leer más

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    It's Raining in Mango

    de Thea Astley ...
    Narrado por Jan Friedl ...

    Completo

    8 hora 22 minutos

    One family traced from the 1860s to the 1980s, beginning with Cornelius Laffey, an Irish-born journalist. Wresting his kin from the easy living of 19th century Sydney, he takes them to northern Queensland where thousands of hopefuls are digging for gold in the mud. The family confronts the horror of aboriginal dispossession, and Cornelius is sacked for reporting the slaughter. The cycles of ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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    The Great World

    de David Malouf ...
    Narrado por John Derum ...

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    12 hora 56 minutos

    Every city, town and village has its memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people's battles – from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and Vietnam. In The Great World, his finest novel yet, David Malouf gives a voice to that experience. But The Great World is more than a novel of war. Ranging over 70 years of ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • The Blue Guitar

    A novel

    de John Banville ...
    Series series Vintage International
    From the Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea comes a "beautiful, heartbreaking" novel (The Washington Post) about a painter and the intricacies of artistic creation, theft, and the ways in which we learn to possess one another, and to hold on to ourselves.Oliver Otway Orme—a man equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating—is a painter of some renown, and a petty thief who has never been ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Checkout 19

    A Novel

    **A NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A NEW YORKER "ESSENTIAL READ"NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND VOGUE“Bennett writes like no one else. She is a rare talent, and Checkout 19 is a masterful novel.” –Karl Ove KnausgaardFrom the author of the “dazzling. . . . and daring” Pond (O magazine), the adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Pond

    **“A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut … Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. … [It]reminds us that small things have great depths.”–New York Times Book Review"Dazzling…exquisitely written and daring ." –O, the Oprah Magazine**Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD