Thea Astley, Author Viking Books $14.95 (185p) ISBN 978-0-670-81035-2
""The island is a green boxing glove, a baseballer's mitt. It has an insolent thumb.'' Kristi, the fictional South Pacific island that is the setting of Astley's novel, is in a state of upheaval. Led by the charismatic Tommy Narota, rebel forces...
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Thea Astley, Author Putnam Publishing Group $17.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-399-13302-2
With her characteristic originality, freshness of expression and skill with evocative imagery, Astley (Beachmasters) chronicles the lives of four generations of an Australian family and of an aborigine tribe. Bringing with him a talent for failure,...
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Thea Astley, Author Putnam Publishing Group $18.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-13363-3
The work of this brilliant Australian writer seems to be gaining ground rapidly here, and none too soon. These are two of her finest works, both short novels of about 140 pages each, and originally published in 1974 and 1972 respectively. As before,
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Thea Astley, Author Penguin Books $6.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-009882-2
This is a humorous, yet unsparingly honest chronicle of the life of one George Brewster, a likable, if unexceptional man. George makes a career as a reporter and achieves modest success at his Sydney paper; he marries a pleasant woman and quickly...
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Thea Astley, Author Penguin Books $6.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-14-011403-4
``With her characteristic originality, freshness of expression and skill with evocative imagery, Astley chronicles the lives of four generations of an Australian family and of an aborigine tribe,'' wrote PW of this work that ``speaks eloquently and...
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Thea Astley, Author Penguin Books $6.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-14-011780-6
This chilling story tells of a small Australian town in the last century, and of the day when a group of white residents massacred some local blacks and took a terrible revenge on one of their own who had befriended them. ``Astley is a writer of...
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Thea Astley, Author Putnam Publishing Group $19.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-399-13532-3
Flippant, breezy, offhand, the narrative voice of Belle, the 40-ish protagonist of Astley's dazzling new novel, seductively snares the reader in episodic vignettes that record her life. Cheerfully neglected by her scatterbrain mother, a drummer in a
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Thea Astley, Author Putnam Publishing Group $21.95 (234p) ISBN 978-0-399-13770-9
As depicted in these two wickedly observant, interlinked novellas, the southeastern ``gold coast'' of the author's native Australia is a den of dropouts, rednecks, ex-hippies, oldtimers and misfits--free spirits seeking liberty and self-definition...
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Thea Astley, Author Penguin Books $8.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-14-014897-8
Aborted careers, a failed marriage and parental neglect drive emotionally needy outsider Belle to obsess over a long-dead settler named Gaden Lockyer as she approaches breakdown. According to PW, ``Few writers can equal Astley in conveying the...
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Thea Astley, Author Putnam Publishing Group $21.95 (223p) ISBN 978-0-399-13875-1
If Astley ( Vanishing Points ) is ever to gain her well-deserved audience in the U.S., maybe this funny, poignant, ultimately tragic novel will be her breakthrough. Focusing on a Brisbane family, the Leversons--passive Bernard, self-absorbed Iris,...
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Thea Astley, Author Putnam Publishing Group $19.95 (188p) ISBN 978-0-399-13966-6
Prize-winning Australian writer Astley (The Slow Natives) has written another chronicle in which domestic lives are lived at uncomprehending cross-purposes and disappointing offspring exact petty revenge. But while this new novel bears her trademark
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