Drylands (novel)

Drylands (1999) (subtitled "A Book for the World's Last Reader") is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Thea Astley. This novel shared the award with Benang by Kim Scott.

Drylands
First edition
AuthorThea Astley
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPenguin Books, Australia
Publication date
1999
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages293 pp
ISBN0-670-88619-X
OCLC42402469
823/.914 21
LC ClassPR9619.3.A75 D79 1999

Awards

Reviews

  • "Australian Book Review"
  • Kerryn Goldsworthy: "Drylands is Astley's Waste Land, with a cast of exhausted and alienated characters wandering through it in the death-grip of entropy, pursued by fin-de-siècle furies and other personifications of failure and defeat. In the small town of Drylands there are no fragments shored against anybody's ruin (well, there are, but even the fragments get vandalized and tossed), and there is certainly none of the peace that passeth understanding." [1]

Notes

For a description of "drylands" see biomes.

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References

  1. Undimmed Outrage by Kerryn Goldsworthy, p294
Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Eucalyptus
Miles Franklin Award recipient
2000
with Benang
Succeeded by
Dark Palace


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