Drylands
by Thea Astley
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140283803
- ISBN 13
- 9780140283808
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Penguin, Australia, 2000. Reprint. Medium Trade Paperback. Very Good. Medium Trade Paperback. 234 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Penguin, Australia, 2000. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: In her flat above Drylands' newsagency, Janet Deakin is writing a book for the world's last reader. Little has changed in her 50 years, except for the coming of cable TV. Loneliness is almost a religion, and still everyone knows your business. But the town is being outmanoeuvred by drought and begins to empty, pouring itself out like water into sand. Small minds shrink even smaller in the vastness of the land. One man is forced out by council rates and bigotry; another sells his property, risking the lot to build his dream. And all of them are shadowed by violence of some sort these people whose only victory over the town is in leaving it. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; General; ISBN: 0140283803. ISBN/EAN: 9780140283808. Inventory No: 23090112.. 9780140283808
Synopsis
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23090112
- Title
- Drylands
- Author
- Thea Astley
- Format/Binding
- Medium Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140283803
- ISBN 13
- 9780140283808
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; Drylands
- Bookseller catalogs
- General; Fiction;
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- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.