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In 1930 the superintendent of a mission on a Queensland island, driven mad by his wife s death, goes on a murderous rampage. Fearing for their lives, the other whites arm a young Indigenous man and order him to shoot Uncle Boss dead. The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow traces the lead-up to this bloody showdown and the repercussions in the years after for Aboriginal people and the colonial overseers.
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Thea Astley was born in Brisbane in 1925. She was a teacher by profession. In 1958 Astley s first novel, Girl with a Monkey, was published. Over the next four decades she published frequently. Astley won the Miles Franklin Literary Award for The Well Dressed Explorer (1962), her third novel. From the late 1960s until 1980, when she began to write full-time, Astley worked at Macquarie University. Astley won the 1989 Patrick White Award and became an Officer in the Order of Australia in 1992. Her last novel was Drylands (1999), her fourth Miles Franklin winner. A lifelong chain-smoker famed for her sharp wit, Thea Astley died in 2004. She remains one of the most distinctive and influential Australian novelists of the twentieth century.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. There are distant shouts, rifle shots, the pounding of feet across the bridge, the sound of running. A womans scream carves the night then bubbles away.In 1930 the superintendent of a mission on a Queensland island, driven mad by his wifes death, goes on a murderous rampage. Fearing for their lives, the other whites arm a young Indigenous man and order him to shoot Uncle Boss dead. The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow traces the lead-up to this bloody showdown and the repercussions in the years afterfor Aboriginal people and the colonial overseers. Traces the lead-up to and aftermath of a bloody showdown when the superintendent of a Queensland mission goes on a murderous rampage in 1930. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781925603569
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