The drover's wife /
Tarantino meets Deadwood in this full-throttle drama of our colonial past. Henry Lawson's story of the Drover's Wife pits the stoic silhouette of a woman against the unforgiving Australian landscape, staring down a serpent-it's our frontier myth captured in a few pages. In Leah's...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Strawberry Hills, New South Wales :
Currency Press,
[2017]
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| Edition: | Revised edition. |
| Series: | Currency plays
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| Summary: | Tarantino meets Deadwood in this full-throttle drama of our colonial past. Henry Lawson's story of the Drover's Wife pits the stoic silhouette of a woman against the unforgiving Australian landscape, staring down a serpent-it's our frontier myth captured in a few pages. In Leah's new play the old story gets a very fresh rewrite. Once again the Drover's Wife is confronted by a threat in her yard, but now it's a man. He's bleeding, he's got secrets and he's black. She knows there's a fugitive wanted for killing whites, and the district is thick with troopers, but something's holding the Drover's Wife back from turning this fella in. |
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| Item Description: | First published in 2016. |
| Physical Description: | xv, 60 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781760620974 1760620971 |