The drover's wife / Leah Purcell.
Series: Currency playsPublisher: Strawberry Hills, NSW Currency Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Edition: Revised editionDescription: xv, 60 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cmContent type: still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760620974; 1760620971Subject(s): Aboriginal Australians -- Drama | Australian drama -- 21st century | Women pioneers -- Australia -- Drama | Pioneers and pioneer life -- Australia -- Drama | Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Drama | Australia -- History -- Drama | Australian | AustralianGenre/Form: Drama. | Historical drama.DDC classification: 822.4 Awards: Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2017 Winner ; NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2017 Winner, Book of the Year ; NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2017 Winner.Summary: Tarantino meets Deadwood in this full-throttle drama of our colonial past. Henry Lawson's story of the Drover's Wife pits the stoic silhouette of a woman against the unforgiving Australian landscape, staring down a serpent-it's our frontier myth captured in a few pages. In Leah's new play the old story gets a very fresh rewrite. Once again the Drover's Wife is confronted by a threat in her yard, but now it's a man. He's bleeding, he's got secrets, and he's black. She knows there's a fugitive wanted for killing whites, and the district is thick with troopers, but something's holding the Drover's Wife back from turning this fella in...| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Jessie Street National Women's Library | 822.4 PUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library | JSNWL Book Club - July 2017 | 67773 |
First published in 2016.
"This revised edition first printed 2017"--Title page verso.
Tarantino meets Deadwood in this full-throttle drama of our colonial past. Henry Lawson's story of the Drover's Wife pits the stoic silhouette of a woman against the unforgiving Australian landscape, staring down a serpent-it's our frontier myth captured in a few pages. In Leah's new play the old story gets a very fresh rewrite. Once again the Drover's Wife is confronted by a threat in her yard, but now it's a man. He's bleeding, he's got secrets, and he's black. She knows there's a fugitive wanted for killing whites, and the district is thick with troopers, but something's holding the Drover's Wife back from turning this fella in...
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2017 Winner ; NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2017 Winner, Book of the Year ; NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2017 Winner.
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