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Country
  
Australia

Publication date
  
1999

Originally published
  
1999

Genre
  
Novel

3.8/5
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Language
  
English

Pages
  
293 pp

Author
  
Thea Astley

OCLC
  
42402469


Publisher
  
Penguin Books, Australia

Media type
  
Print (Hardback & Paperback)

Preceded by
  
The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow

Similar
  
Thea Astley books, Novels

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.

Contents

Awards

  • Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2000: joint winner
  • Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Best Fiction Book, 2000: winner

    • Reviews

  • "Australian Book Review" [1]
  • Kerryn Goldsworthy: "Drylands is Astley's Waste Land, with a cast of exhausted and alienated characters wandering through it in the death-grip of entropy, pursued by fin de siècle furies and other personifications of failure and defeat. In the small town of Drylands there are no fragments shored against anybody's ruin (well, there are, but even the fragments get vandalized and tossed), and there is certainly none of the peace that passeth understanding."

    • References

    Drylands (novel) Wikipedia
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