- Title:
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Drylands
- Written by:
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Thea Astley
- Read by:
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Beverley Dunn
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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6
- Duration:
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7 hours 9 minutes
- Published:
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February 01 2009
- Available Date:
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May 14 2010
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781742018256
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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Bestseller
Winner Miles Franklin Literary Award 1999
Winner Queensland Premier's Literary Awards / Fiction Book Award 2000
Winner AudioFile Earphones Award 2009
"It is impossible to put this book down. It seethes with energy and passion."
The Herald Sun
From the Miles Franklin Award-winning author of Hunting the Wild Pineapple.
In her flat above Drylands' newsagency, Janet Deakin is writing a book for the world's last reader. Little has changed in her 50 years, except for the coming of cable TV. Loneliness is almost a religion, and still everyone knows your business. But the town is being outmanoeuvred by drought and begins to empty, pouring itself out like water into sand. Small minds shrink even smaller in the vastness of the land. One man is forced out by council rates and bigotry; another sells his property, risking the lot to build his dream. And all of them are shadowed by violence of some sort - these people whose only victory over the town is in leaving it.