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Self-confident, skillful, ambitious, and bright, Joan envisions herself as one of history's truly great women, but when she becomes pregnant, she finds herself caught between her dreams and society's expectations
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Kate Grenville is the author of "Dark Places," winner of the Victorian Premiere's Prize;" Dreamhouse"; "The Idea of Perfection," which won the Orange Prize for Fiction; "The Lieutenant"; "Lilian's Story," winner of the Vogel/Australian Prize; and "Searching the Secret River," which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Her long experience as a creative writing teacher led her to publish "The Writing Book" and "Writing from Start to Finish."
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The brilliant Australian author of the award-winning Lillian's Story achieves something utterly original and moving in this fanciful feminist epic. Male readers need not cringe, however: Joan (who appeared briefly in Lillian's Story ) may be thoroughly unconventional, yearning for a more striking role in life, but her sympathies embrace all of humankind, and the portrait of her good but unimaginative husband Duncan is profoundly moving and perceptive. Chapters from Joan's own life are interspersed with imagined moments in Australian history in which Joan plays a role: as Captain Cook's proud wife in the discovery of the continent, as a female convict first to set foot in Botany Bay, as an Aboriginal woman, as dozens of unsung, hardworking and invisible women who toiled skeptically alongside the men who starred in, and wrote, the history books. Funny and sometimes piercingly poignant, Grenville offers an unblinking and unsentimental view of life's underside; her book is an often poetic treasure.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherUNKNO
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0945167091
- ISBN 13 9780945167099
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages279
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