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The Drover's Wife

By Frank Moorhouse

The Drover's Wife Contemporary literature

The Drover's Wife

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Since Henry Lawson wrote his story 'The Drover's Wife' in 1892, Australian writers, painters, performers and photographers have created a wonderful tradition of drover's wife works, stories and images. The Russell Drysdale painting from 1945 extended the mythology and it, too, has become an Australian icon. Other versions of the Lawson story have been written by Murray Bail, Barbara Jefferis, Mandy Sayer, David Ireland, Madeleine Watts and others, up to the present, including Leah Purcell's play and Ryan O'Neill's graphic novel. In essays and commentary, Frank Moorhouse examines our ongoing fascination with this story and has collected some of the best pieces of writing on the subject. This remarkable, gorgeous book is, he writes, 'a monument to the drovers' wives'.
Product details
Number of Pages:
384
Release Date:
2017-11-01
Publication Date:
2017-11-01
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Australia
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
014378482X
ISBN13:
9780143784821
Weight:
454 g
Height:
137 cm
Width:
213 cm
Thickness:
43 cm
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