Blue Skies: Text Classics

Author: Helen Hodgman

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  • : $12.99 AUD
  • : 9781925498370
  • : The Text Publishing Company
  • : Text Publishing
  • : 0.145
  • : May 2017
  • : 197mm X 126mm X 12mm
  • : 12.95
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  • : Helen Hodgman
  • : Text Classics Ser.
  • : Paperback
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Barcode 9781925498370
9781925498370

Description

In Helen Hodgman's dazzlingly written debut a young woman is trapped in a small city on an island at the end of the world - by motherhood and an absent husband, by busybody in-laws and neighbours, by a drab society yet to throw off the shackles of its colonial past. A darkly funny tale of a crack-up in stultifying suburbia, Blue Skies marked the emergence of a unique, acerbic voice in Australian fiction. This edition includes an introduction by the acclaimed Tasmanian author Danielle Wood.

Author description

Helen Hodgman is the author of the novels Blue Skies (1976), Jack and Jill (1978; winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), Broken Words (1988; winner of the Christina Stead Prize), Passing Remarks (1996), Waiting for Matindi (1998) and The Bad Policeman (2001).