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1999 novel by Thea Astley

Drylands
First edition
AuthorThea Astley
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPenguin Books, Australia
Publication date1999
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages293
ISBN0-670-88619-X
OCLC42402469
Dewey Decimal823/.914 21
LC ClassPR9619.3.A75 D79 1999
Preceded byThe Multiple Effects of Rainshadow 
Followed by

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.

Awards

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."

Notes

For a description of "drylands" see biomes.

References

  1. "Austlit - Drylands by Thea Astley". Austlit. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  2. ^ "Austlit - Drylands - Awards". Austlit. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  3. Goldsworthy, Kerryn (September 1999). "Drylands by Thea Astley". Australian Book Review. Retrieved 25 April 2022.

See also

Works by Thea Astley
Novels
Collections
Miles Franklin Award
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