A Long Time Dying

Masters, Olga

ISBN 10: 0702220248 / ISBN 13: 9780702220241

Published by Univ of Queensland Pr, 1985

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Long Time Dying
• Publisher: Univ of Queensland Pr
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0702220248
• ISBN 13: 9780702220241
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • British & Irish

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Synopsis

With subtle brilliance, Masters's new novel re-creates the mood of small townlife in 1935. The Depression is a difficult time, and love is at a premium inthe day-to-day struggle to maintain respectability.

From Publishers Weekly

High art, in which, as Yeats ordained, the stitching and unstitching never show, transforms the do-nothing town of Cobargo, New South Wales, into a neighborhood alive with the dreams and disappointments of a handful of mostly poor farmers, who invite the reader into the parlor to share the gossip. Although these are short stories (posthumously published in the U.S.) by the prize-winning author of The Home Girls , the characters intermingle: Mary Jussep--whose mother, in "Scones Every Day," says, "I feel crook" and dies--reappears in "Stan and Mary, Mary and Stan," pursued on horseback by young Stan Rossmore, scion of Cobargo's stuffy and sole rich family. "The Wedding" recounts their bumpy road toward matrimony, the neighbors suspiciously "darting their eyes at Mary's waist" while wishing their daughters could snare a Rossmore. In each story, one visits familiar people, joins in conversations and hears many points of view, savoring "the richness of choice" offered to readers in Masters's many-layered, resonant volume.
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