- Title:
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The Strays
- Written by:
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Emily Bitto
- Read by:
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Vanessa Coffey
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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7
- Duration:
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7 hours 40 minutes
- Published:
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January 28 2017
- Available Date:
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January 28 2017
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489375186
- Genres:
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Fiction; Historical Fiction; Sagas
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
Winner Stella Prize 2015
Shortlisted Dobbie Literary Award for a first time published author 2015
Longlisted Dublin IMPAC Award 2015
Shortlisted NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2015
Shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2015
'You could lift out any sentence in The Strays and admire the sheer artistry of its melody and composition. What s especially wonderful about Bitto s literary novel is the story never feels weighed down by style. It s an immensely pleasurable read.'
Bookseller + Publisher
Winner of the 2015 Stella Prize, The Strays is an engrossing story of ambition, sacrifice and compromised loyalties from an exciting new talent.
On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous avant-garde painter Evan Trentham. He and his wife are trying to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia by inviting other like-minded artists to live and work at their family home. Lily becomes infatuated with this wild, makeshift family and longs to truly be a part of it.
As the years pass, Lily observes the way the lives of these artists come to reflect the same themes as their art: Faustian bargains and spectacular falls from grace. Yet it’s not Evan, but his own daughters, who pay the price for his radicalism.
'Emily Bitto has written a very stylish and enjoyable debut novel.'
The Sunday Mail