Frank Moorhouse

The Drover's Wife (eBook, ePUB)

A Collection

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The creation of the book was motivated by his "curiosity about the unique survival of The Drover's Wife". Over all hovers the fertile mind, the guiding hand, not to say elegant prose, of Moorhouse. Nobody in the book uses the word enchantment in reference to Lawson's story, but I couldn't help seeing the story as having cast a kind of spell, as Australia being in thrall to The Drover's Wife.
This Moorhouse fiction, included in this book, is one of the most dazzling Australian short stories ever written. The great thing about this story is its naive, reasonable and flawless tone. Many of the stories here are very funny, one of my favourites being The Drover's Wife Club by the hilarious James Roberts.
If you want to read an engrossing book that is "a celebration of a great Australian love affair", here's your chance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House Australia
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780143784838
• Artikelnr.: 50463807

Autorenporträt

Frank Moorhouse was born in the coastal town of Nowra, NSW. He worked as an editor of small-town newspapers and as an administrator and in 1970s became a full-time writer. He won national prizes for his fiction, non-fiction, and essays. He was best known for the highly acclaimed Edith trilogy, Grand Days, Dark Palace, and Cold Light, novels which follow the career of an Australian woman in the League of Nations in the 1920s and 1930s through to the International Atomic Energy Agency in the 1970s as she struggled to become a diplomat. His last book The Drover's Wife - a reading adventure published in October 2017, brings together works inspired by Henry Lawson's story and examines the attachment Australia has to the story and to Russell Drysdale's painting of the same name. Frank was awarded a number of fellowships including writer in residence at King's College Cambridge, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. His work has been translated into several languages. He was made a member of the Order of Australia for services to literature in 1985 and was made a Doctor of the University by Griffith University in 1997 and a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) by the University of Sydney, 2015. Frank Moorhouse died, in Sydney, on 26 June 2022.