The drover's wife : the legend of Molly Johnson / Leah Purcell.
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TextPublisher: [Melbourne, Victoria] : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 280 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780143791478 (paperback)Other title: Legend of Molly JohnsonSubject(s): Pioneers and pioneer life -- Australia -- Fiction | Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction | Australian fiction | Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Fiction | Women pioneers -- Australia -- Fiction | Australia -- History -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: Leah Purcell's play caused a sensation on performance and won the NSW Premier's Prize Book of the Year and now she is expanding that play and a film script to write a novel that while still 'Tarantino meets Deadwood' is also so much more. In the titular character The Drover's Wife, Purcell has created a figure who is as resonant and significant as Ned Kelly. Lawson's original short story is reimagined vividly to portray the drover's heroic wife as a righteous avenger - on behalf of herself, her children and her race - in a savage male world. Challenging responses to family violence and black white relations. A taut thriller of our pioneering past, The Drover's Wife is full of fury, power, family love and intimate friendships. And has a black sting to the tail, reaching from our nation's settled infancy into our complicated present.
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Leah Purcell's play caused a sensation on performance and won the NSW Premier's Prize Book of the Year and now she is expanding that play and a film script to write a novel that while still 'Tarantino meets Deadwood' is also so much more. In the titular character The Drover's Wife, Purcell has created a figure who is as resonant and significant as Ned Kelly. Lawson's original short story is reimagined vividly to portray the drover's heroic wife as a righteous avenger - on behalf of herself, her children and her race - in a savage male world. Challenging responses to family violence and black white relations. A taut thriller of our pioneering past, The Drover's Wife is full of fury, power, family love and intimate friendships. And has a black sting to the tail, reaching from our nation's settled infancy into our complicated present.
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