The Puzzleheaded Girl
Author | : Christina Stead |
Publisher | : Harvill Secker |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Ireland |
ISBN | : 9780436489020 |
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Author | : Christina Stead |
Publisher | : Harvill Secker |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Ireland |
ISBN | : 9780436489020 |
Author | : Christina Stead |
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Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Australian fiction |
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Author | : Christina Stead |
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Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : Christina Stead |
Publisher | : Text Publishing |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2016-10-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1925410145 |
‘I hate and despise business and anything to do with making money.’ ‘Do you think it’s wrong?’ ‘It is the enemy of art.’ Eighteen-year-old Honor Lawrence is out of place at the bank where she works. When she refuses to accept a promotion, despite her obvious poverty, her mentor, Augustus Debrett, doesn’t quite know what to make of it, or of her. Honor is an enigma—and she leaves confusion and uneasiness in her wake. In The Puzzleheaded Girl, made up of four thematically linked novellas, Stead’s unsurpassable skills of observation and social critique are on full display. Christina Stead was born in 1902 in Sydney. Stead’s first books, The Salzburg Tales and Seven Poor Men of Sydney, were published in 1934 to positive reviews in England and the United States. Her fourth work, The Man Who Loved Children, has been hailed as a ‘masterpiece’ by Jonathan Franzen, among others. In total, Stead wrote almost twenty novels and short-story collections. Stead returned to Australia in 1969 after forty years abroad for a fellowship at the Australian National University. She resettled permanently in Australia in 1974 and was the first recipient of the Patrick White Award that year. Christina Stead died in Sydney in 1983, aged eighty. She is widely considered to be one of the most influential Australian authors of the twentieth century. ‘Christina Stead’s talent is vital and powerful; her work has that original streak of genius so evident in the best Australian writing.’ Sunday Times ‘Stead effortlessly captures the feel of the era she is describing, with spare and beautiful prose.’ BookMooch ‘I loved the Text Classic reissue of Christina Stead’s The PuzzleHeaded Girl, a kind of female version of Bartleby the Scrivener. Stead’s gifts are so ample, her grasp of obsession extraordinary.’ Delia Falconer, Best Books of 2016, Australian ‘These are perfectly pitched stories of flight.’ Australian Financial Review ‘At shorter length, Stead reveals more clearly her gifts in tone and voice and building a scene, while her theme here puts these fictions among the Ur-texts of feminism.’ Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Author | : Christina Stead |
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Release | : 1965 |
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Author | : Diana Brydon |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780389206903 |
Stead's novels have gained growing readership and critical attention in recent years. This feminist reading of the life and work of Christina Stead focuses on her characters and themes that question established assumptions about gender and class relations and the aesthetic values they support.
Author | : Sallie Muirden |
Publisher | : Transit Lounge |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2019-05-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1925760332 |
On the morning of her wedding, 24-year-old Beth Shaw drives down the peninsula to the Portsea Hotel. She is uneasy and confused because she has just learnt something devastating about her fiancé, Jordan, that completely changes her view of him. As Beth's old schoolmates and her relatives arrive for the big day at the bayside idyll, Beth contemplates her childhood in suburbia. She worshipped the school relay runners, one of whom was Jordan’s high school sweetheart. Painful memories of earlier disloyalties and betrayals resurface. Her dreams and wedding threaten to spin out of control. Will the truth ever be known? And must she make a fateful decision about more than just her wedding? Award-winning author Sallie Muirden deftly evokes the contradictions of human behaviour, and growing up in the 70s and 80s. With its Austenesque feel, Wedding Puzzle is an astute, entertaining, and often tense comedy of manners, that considers our choice of partner and the decision to marry as the key moment in our lives.
Author | : Christina Stead |
Publisher | : UQP |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780702225208 |
Includes excerpts from novels, short fiction, unpublished prose, book reviews, interviews and letters.
Author | : Dorothy Helly |
Publisher | : Feminist Press at CUNY |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1997-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781558611719 |
Special twenty-fifth anniversary issue of the leading journal in women's studies.
Author | : Thomas Keneally |
Publisher | : Text Publishing |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2019-04-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1925774252 |
Australian literature’s strangest novel, written by its most familiar novelist