Drylands (1999)[1] (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.

Drylands
First edition
AuthorThea Astley
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPenguin Books, Australia
Publication date
1999
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages293
ISBN0-670-88619-X
OCLC42402469
823/.914 21
LC ClassPR9619.3.A75 D79 1999
Preceded byThe Multiple Effects of Rainshadow 
Followed by

Awards

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Review

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  • Goldsworthy, Kerryn (September 1999), "Undimmed Outrage, Fiction review", Australian Book Review, archived from the original on 29 September 2007
  • 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."[3]

Notes

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For a description of "drylands" see biomes.

References

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  1. ^ "Austlit - Drylands by Thea Astley". Austlit. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Austlit - Drylands - Awards". Austlit. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  3. ^ Goldsworthy, Kerryn (September 1999). "Drylands by Thea Astley". Australian Book Review. Retrieved 25 April 2022.

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