Daisy Bates In The Desert
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'This is the story of a remarkable individual life, a story rendered the more peculiar and fascinating by Blackburn's graceful prose and ever-surprising vision' - <i>The Times</i>
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<p>In 1913, when she was 54 years old, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. And there she stayed, with occasional interruptions, for almost 30 years.</p><p>In<i>Daisy Bates in the Desert</i>Julia Blackburn explores the ancient and desolate landscape where Ms Bates says she was most happy. She fuses her own imagination and experience with that of Daisy Bates, unitl she seems to be recalling this other life as it it were her own.</p>
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Julia Blackburn has written five books of non-fiction -<i>Charles Waterton</i>,<i>The</i><i>Emperor's Last Island</i>,<i>Daisy Bates in the Desert</i>,<i>Old Man Goya</i>and<i>With Billie</i>- a family memoir,<i>The Three of Us</i>, which won the 2009 J. R. Ackerley Award, and two novels,<i>The Book of Colour</i>and<i>The Leper's Companions</i>, both of which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She is the author of seventeen short stories specially commisioned by BBC Radio, a selection of which were published in<i>My Animals and Other Family,</i>and four radio plays, including<i>The Spellbound Horses</i>.
Weitere Details
Erschienen: 22.02.2011
Umfang: 240 S., 0.24 MB
Sprache: ENG
ISBN/EAN: 9781407073804
Umbreit-Nr.: 6453046
