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Astley, Thea A Kindness Cup (King Penguin)
Penguin 1989 0140117806 / 9780140117806 Paperback Good Paperback
First page has a small newspaper clipping taped on it. Light cover scuffing and edge rubbing. Natural age tanning on clean pages. From Publishers Weekly: This chilling story tells of a small Australian town in the last century, and of the day when a group of white residents massacred some local blacks and took a terrible revenge on one of their own who had befriended them. "Astley is a writer of astonishing gifts, NOTE: Publisher overstock books may have a remainder mark. A remainder mark is a mark on the bottom or top edge that is added just to assure that it is not returned to the store! Orders normally ship in 1-2 business days depending on what time payment is completed.
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Astley, Thea Hunting the Wild Pine
Putnam Adult 1991 0399135618 / 9780399135613 Hardcover Good Good Hardcover
Light edge wear to jacket and book. Inside is clean and excellent. Hardcover with unclipped dustjacket. From Library Journal: Leverson, a middle-aged "monopod" failure, is the introspective narrator and moral pivot of these modern tales of the Australian rain forest. As he limns the "human geography" of Queensland, its residents, dropouts, drifters, and adventurers seeking Eden or oblivion, he leaves no pretense, folly, or illusion unbared. In "A Northern Belle," the story of Willy Fourcorners reveals what it meant to be black "in those parts." The tale of the couple in "Ladies Need Only Apply" is a tropical paradigm of sexism and subjection. In the title story guests of an alcoholic couple go on a mock quest and end up confronting the essential shallowness in others and themselves. Leverson is a caustic romantic who both perceives the beauty and exploitation of the landscape and still hears "the dying music of this sad poetry." An illuminating collection by the award-winning author of Reaching Tin River ( LJ 4/1/90). NOTE: Publisher overstock books may have a remainder mark. A remainder mark is a mark on the bottom or top edge that is added just to assure that it is not returned to the store! Orders normally ship in 1-2 business days depending on what time payment is completed.
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Astley, Thea Slow Natives
Putnam Adult 1993 0399138757 / 9780399138751 Hardcover Very Good Good Hardcover
Dust jacket flap has a very small newspaper clipping on the book taped to it. Other than that, this book is perfect inside and out. From Publishers Weekly: If Astley ( Vanishing Points ) is ever to gain her well-deserved audience in the U.S., maybe this funny, poignant, ultimately tragic novel will be her breakthrough. Focusing on a Brisbane family, the Leversons--passive Bernard, self-absorbed Iris, their rebellious teenage son Keith--the novel begins as social satire. Gradually, the roots of Keith's loutish behavior, his desperate need for a father's firm hand, are established. Oblivious to Keith's signals, Bernard feels disengaged from his family; ironically, he does become emotionally engaged by the despair of a priest questioning his vocation in an up-country town, where Bernard goes on his job as an itinerant music teacher/board examiner. The dialogue throughout is clever and brittle; Astley shows no mercy for cultural or social pretentiousness. But the hard sheen of a comedy of manners gradually gives way to a deeper, more empathetic tone as she examines the lives of a somewhat eccentric but always credible cast of characters: a psychologically unhinged nun; a sexually starved spinster; a neglected, submarginally intelligent slum kid whose life intersects with Keith's. The ease with which Astley integrates her characters' lives is breathtaking. As the reader develops sympathy for Keith and for his suffering parents, the narrative acquires the tension of a thriller, sliding inevitably into tragedy--and a kind of redemption, too. The lesson one learns here: how we "unwittingly. . . inflict hurt we can never mend," is memorable. NOTE: Publisher overstock books may have a remainder mark. A remainder mark is a mark on the bottom or top edge that is added just to assure that it is not returned to the store! Orders normally ship in 1-2 business days depending on what time payment is completed.
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