Set in a New South Wales country town, describes life among the unemployed during the Great Depression.
Kylie Tennant Knihy
Kylie Tennantová byla významnou australskou autorkou, která se proslavila svým sociálně realistickým stylem a hlubokým zájmem o život obyčejných lidí. Svým dílům dodávala autentičnost prostřednictvím důkladného vlastního průzkumu, který zahrnoval i neobvyklé zkušenosti. Její romány, ačkoliv spadají pod sociální realismus, jsou mnohem komplexnější a zkoumají rozmanitá témata s jedinečnou perspektivou.
The inner city suburb of Foveaux is known as a place of ill-repute; it's a bit of an embarrassment to the good people of Sydney. But take a closer look, and individuals begin to come into focus out of the murk. Kylie Tennant's second novel is her first exploration of the city. Starting in 1912 and progressing deep into the 1930s, Tennant follows a myriad of storylines and characters.
Time Enough Later
- 255 stránek
- 9 hodin čtení
Ride on Stranger
- 332 stránek
- 12 hodin čtení
The Battlers
- 401 stránek
- 15 hodin čtení
The award-winning tale of the motley crowd of travelling 'battlers'. The flowers flared up from the ground unconquerable. The unrepentant gaiety of the weed, the burning blues and crimsons, set the hills glowing. 'It's a plant that's struck it lucky,' the Stray said thoughtfully. 'It hasn't got no right, but it's there.' The Battlers is the story of Snow, a drifter and wanderer, the waiflike Dancy the Stray, from the slums of Sydney, and the other outcasts who accompany them as they travel the country roads looking for work. Like the weed Patterson's Curse, they 'haven't got no right', but they are there. Based on her own experiences of life on the roads in the 1930s, Tennant tells the story of the motley crowd of travellers with compassion and humour. The book's message of survival against the odds is as relevant today as it was then.