The Newspaper of Claremont Street - Softcover

Jolley, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0909144494 ISBN 13: 9780909144494

Publisher: Fremantle Arts Center Pr, 2001

Synopsis

Motivated by the desire to own her own land and a country house, Claremont Street cleaning lady and local gossip authority Margarite Morris is helped toward her goal by a perfectly timed accidental death

About this title

About the Author:

Elizabeth Jolley was born in the industrial Midlands and brought up in a half-English and three-quarters Viennese household and later in a Quaker boarding school. She went to Australia in 1959 with her husband and has written since then. She is now a part-time tutor at the Fremantle Arts Centre in Australia.

From Publishers Weekly:

The Australian author (The Well) imprints the heroine of her new novel indelibly upon the reader's imagination. To the people whose houses she cleans, Margarite Morris is "Newspaper" or "Weekly." She tells everyone about all the events in the neighborhood but nothing about herself. Through the author's artistry, however, Weekly's private life becomes real and immediate as she reviews her deprived childhood, mourns for her selfish brother, a small-time crook beloved and spoiled by Weekly and her widowed mother, long dead. Working steadily now in her later years, she accumulates a pile of earnings like a miser, the foundation of her dream to escape into blessed solitude, out of the city into the country. When she finally has enough money, Weekly buys some acreage with a small cabin, her own home at last, but the idyll is threatened by an interloper. What happens then is a stunning resolution to the sad, sometimes wildly funny, altogether wonderful story.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Fremantle Arts Center Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0909144494
• ISBN 13: 9780909144494
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120