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The drover's wife / Leah Purcell.

By: Contributor(s): 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:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781760620974
  • 1760620971
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 822.4 23
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...
List(s) this item appears in: JSNWL Book Club
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 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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