Drylands (novel)
 First edition | |
| Author | Thea Astley |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Penguin Books, Australia |
Publication date | 1999 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 293 |
| ISBN | 0-670-88619-X |
| OCLC | 42402469 |
| 823/.914 21 | |
| LC Class | PR9619.3.A75 D79 1999 |
| Preceded by | The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow |
| Followed by | - |
Drylands (1999)[1] (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.
Awards
- Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2000: joint winner[2]
- Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Best Fiction Book, 2000: winner[2]
Review
- Goldsworthy, Kerryn (September 1999), "Undimmed Outrage, Fiction review", Australian Book Review, archived from the original on 29 September 2007
- 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."[3]
Notes
For a description of "drylands" see biomes.
References
- ^ "Austlit - Drylands by Thea Astley". Austlit. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
- ^ a b "Austlit - Drylands - Awards". Austlit. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
- ^ Goldsworthy, Kerryn (September 1999). "Drylands by Thea Astley". Australian Book Review. Retrieved 25 April 2022.