A Dutiful Daughter: Text Classics

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title A Dutiful Daughter: Text Classics
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Thomas Keneally
Introduction by Geordie Williamson
SeriesText Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:208
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781925773446
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Text Publishing
Imprint The Text Publishing Company
Publication Date 2 April 2019
Publication Country Australia

Description

It is the duty of a good child to let his parents know the second they turn into animals.Barbara Glover's parents metamorphosed when she hit puberty, becoming bovine from the waist down. Fearful of her transformative powers, she tends diligently to them, keeping them like animals on the family's remote farm and-along with her brother, Damian, who harbours incestuous longings for her-protecting their terrible secret from the world. First published in 1971, Thomas Keneally's A Dutiful Daughter is strange and disturbing, and utterly unlike any other Australian novel.

Author Biography

Thomas Keneally was born in 1935 in country New South Wales. In 1958 he entered the seminary but left before being ordained. He published his first book, The Place at Whitton, in 1964. He won the Miles Franklin Literary Award for Bring Larks and Heroes (1967) and Three Cheers for the Paraclete (1968), and was shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize before becoming the first Australian ever to win it: for Schindler's Ark, in 1982. Keneally has written over thirty books, both fiction and non-fiction, as well as plays and essays.

Reviews

`Authentically marvellous.' * New York Times * `One of the most startling menages ever.' * Kirkus Review * `A very strange tale of a very strange family.' * ABC RN *