β Allen Dorfman
π Fiction
π
2016
π English
β 106 KB
β¦ LIBER β¦
Reaching Tin River
β Scribed by Thea Astley
- Publisher
- The Text Publishing Company
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 138 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
_Tin River is a townlet of terminal attractiveness.
Tin River is a state of mind._
Researching in the archives Belle discovers the long-dead Gaden Lockyer, a colonial pioneer in Jericho Flats, and soon becomes obsessed. Belle's quest for Lockyer is her way of coming to terms with the pastβher mother, 'a drummer in her own all-women's group'; her absent American father; and her ineffectual husband, Seb. In Reaching Tin River , Thea Astley's satire is at its sharpest and most entertaining.
Thea Astley was born in Brisbane in 1925. Her first novel, Girl with a Monkey , was published in 1958 and her third, The Well Dressed Explorer (1962), won the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Many notable books followed, among them the groundbreaking A Kindness Cup (1974), which addressed frontier massacres of Indigenous Australians, and It's Raining in Mango (1987). Her last novel was Drylands (1999), her fourth Miles...
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