The Multiple Effects Of Rainshadow - Softcover

Astley, Thea

 
9781925603569: The Multiple Effects Of Rainshadow

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In 1930 the superintendent of a mission on a Queensland island, driven mad by his wife s death, goes on a murderous rampage. Fearing for their lives, the other whites arm a young Indigenous man and order him to shoot Uncle Boss dead. The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow traces the lead-up to this bloody showdown and the repercussions in the years after for Aboriginal people and the colonial overseers.

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Thea Astley was born in Brisbane in 1925. She was a teacher by profession. In 1958 Astley s first novel, Girl with a Monkey, was published. Over the next four decades she published frequently. Astley won the Miles Franklin Literary Award for The Well Dressed Explorer (1962), her third novel. From the late 1960s until 1980, when she began to write full-time, Astley worked at Macquarie University. Astley won the 1989 Patrick White Award and became an Officer in the Order of Australia in 1992. Her last novel was Drylands (1999), her fourth Miles Franklin winner. A lifelong chain-smoker famed for her sharp wit, Thea Astley died in 2004. She remains one of the most distinctive and influential Australian novelists of the twentieth century.

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ISBN 10:  0670872164 ISBN 13:  9780670872169
Verlag: Viking, 1996
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