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Country Australia Publication date 1974 Pages 154 ISBN 0170050157 | 3.3/5 Goodreads Language English Originally published 1974 Page count 154 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher Nelson Books, Australia Thea Astley books The Well Dressed Explorer, The Slow Natives, The Multiple Effects of, Girl with a Monkey, The Acolyte | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Kindness Cup (1974) is a novel by Australian author Thea Astley. It won the 1975 The Age Book of the Year Award.
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Plot summary
The novel is set in a cane-country town on the north Queensland coast. It deals with a wave of racist brutality in the 1860s and the attempts, some twenty or so years later, to rectify the wrongs caused.
Reviews
Malcolm Pettigrove in The Canberra Times was not overly impressed with the book stating: "When Miss Astley drops the prose of the stylist and begins to function simply as a writer with a tale to tell her work becomes stark, tense, and most effectively dramatic."
References
A Kindness Cup Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA