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Country
  
Australia

Publication date
  
1990

Followed by
  
Vanishing Points

Author
  
Thea Astley

ISBN
  
0399135324

3.5/5
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Language
  
English

Pages
  
223

Originally published
  
1990

Page count
  
223

Publisher
  
William Heinemann

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Media type
  
Print (Hardback & Paperback)

Preceded by
  
Beachmasters, It's Raining in Mango

Similar
  
Thea Astley books, Other books

Reaching Tin River (1990) is a novel by Australian author Thea Astley. It won the 1990 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.

Contents

Plot summary

Thea Astley's main character, Belle, is a quick witted, strong willed, rebellious and ambitious young woman. Belle tells an ironic story of her childhood and her obsession with a dead man. While researching the archives of a middle-of-nowhere town called Jericho Flats, she path crosses that of the long-dead, Gaden Lockyer, with whom she becomes obsessed.

Reviews

  • Ursula Perrin in The New York Times: "Every novel has a secret heart. It may be a faint heart, a bum heart, a cold heart. Ms. Astley's novel has a case of atrial fibrillation: its heart beats strongly but erratically. Much of the early writing is inflated, contorted; the ending seems to me a sham. And yet there's the journey, ah, the journey."
  • Sandy Forbes in The Canberra Times: "Astley's prose crackles with wit and acerbic observation. Her outback towns seem to leach the pages; her observations about the upwardly mobile townies are just as dry."

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