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Country Australia Publication date 1962 Followed by The Slow Natives Genre Novel Preceded by A Descant for Gossips | 2.7/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 254 Originally published 1962 Page count 254 Publisher Angus & Robertson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Similar Thea Astley books, Novels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Well Dressed Explorer (1962) is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Thea Astley. This novel shared the award with The Cupboard Under the Stairs by George Turner.
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Plot summary
The novel follows journalist, George Brewster, who moves from city to city, from empty love affair to empty love affair, until he dies. He is married, but faithless to his wife...and is ultimately a "pathetic figure".
Themes
The themes of this novel are common to Astley's novels: "the hurts inflicted inadvertently and deliberately on others, the terrible shallowness underlying the inability to identify imaginatively with others, and the destruction of others and of the self by wrongly conceived actions."
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