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
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781760620974
- 1760620971
- 822.4 23
- 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.
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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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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