Record Number |
823429 |
ISBN |
9780143791478 (paperback) |
Author |
Purcell, Leah, 1970- author. |
Title |
The drover's wife : the legend of Molly Johnson / Leah Purcell. |
Publisher/Date |
[Melbourne, Victoria] : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019. |
©2019 |
Pagination etc. |
280 pages ; 24 cm |
Summary Note |
Leah Purcell's play caused a sensation on performance and won the NSW Premier's Prize Book of the Year and now she is expanding that play and a film script to write a novel that while still 'Tarantino meets Deadwood' is also so much more. In the titular character The Drover's Wife, Purcell has created a figure who is as resonant and significant as Ned Kelly. Lawson's original short story is reimagined vividly to portray the drover's heroic wife as a righteous avenger - on behalf of herself, her children and her race - in a savage male world. Challenging responses to family violence and black white relations. A taut thriller of our pioneering past, The Drover's Wife is full of fury, power, family love and intimate friendships. And has a black sting to the tail, reaching from our nation's settled infancy into our complicated present. |
Subject |
Pioneers and pioneer life -- Australia -- Fiction |
Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction |
Australian fiction |
Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Fiction |
Women pioneers -- Australia -- Fiction |
Australia -- History -- Fiction |
Historical fiction. |
Added Author |
Lawson, Henry, 1867-1922 Drover's wife. |
Shelf Location |
F PURC |