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Drylands (novel)

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Drylands
First edition
Author	Thea Astley
Language	English
Publisher	Penguin Books, Australia
Publication date	1999
Publication place	Australia
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	293
ISBN	0-670-88619-X
OCLC	42402469
Dewey Decimal	823/.914 21
LC Class	PR9619.3.A75 D79 1999
Preceded by	The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow
Followed by	-

Drylands (1999)^[1] (subtitled "A Book for the World's Last Reader") is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Thea Astley. This novel shared the award with BenangbyKim Scott.

Awards[edit]

Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2000: joint winner^[2]
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Best Fiction Book, 2000: winner^[2]

Review[edit]

Goldsworthy, Kerryn (September 1999), "Undimmed Outrage, Fiction review", Australian Book Review, archived from the original on 29 September 2007
Kerryn Goldsworthy: "Drylands is Astley's Waste Land, with a cast of exhausted and alienated characters wandering through it in the death-grip of entropy, pursued by fin-de-siècle furies and other personifications of failure and defeat. In the small town of Drylands there are no fragments shored against anybody's ruin (well, there are, but even the fragments get vandalized and tossed), and there is certainly none of the peace that passeth understanding."^[3]

Notes[edit]

For a description of "drylands" see biomes.

References[edit]

^ "Austlit - Drylands by Thea Astley". Austlit. Retrieved 12 July 2023.

^ ^a ^b "Austlit - Drylands - Awards". Austlit. Retrieved 12 July 2023.

^ Goldsworthy, Kerryn (September 1999). "Drylands by Thea Astley". Australian Book Review. Retrieved 25 April 2022.

See also[edit]

Works by Thea Astley

Novels

Girl with a Monkey (1958)
A Descant for Gossips (1960)
The Well Dressed Explorer (1962)
The Slow Natives (1965)
A Boat Load of Home Folk (1968)
The Acolyte (1972)
A Kindness Cup (1974)
An Item from the Late News (1982)
Beachmasters (1985)
Reaching Tin River (1990)
Vanishing Points (1992)
Coda (1994)
The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow (1996)
Drylands (1999)

Collections

Hunting the Wild Pineapple (1979)
Collected Stories (1997)

v t e Miles Franklin Award
1957–1959	VossbyPatrick White (1957) To the IslandsbyRandolph Stow (1958) The Big FellowbyVance Palmer (1959)
1960–1969	The IrishmanbyElizabeth O'Conner (1960) Riders in the ChariotbyPatrick White (1961) The Well Dressed ExplorerbyThea Astley (1962) The Cupboard Under the StairsbyGeorge Turner (1962) Careful, He Might Hear YoubySumner Locke Elliott (1963) My Brother JackbyGeorge Johnston (1964) The Slow NativesbyThea Astley (1965) TrapbyPeter Mathers (1966) Bring Larks and HeroesbyThomas Keneally (1967) Three Cheers for the ParacletebyThomas Keneally (1968) Clean Straw for NothingbyGeorge Johnston (1969)
1970–1979	A Horse of AirbyDal Stivens (1970) The Unknown Industrial PrisonerbyDavid Ireland (1971) The AcolytebyThea Astley (1972) No award (1973) The Mango TreebyRonald McKie (1974) Poor Fellow My CountrybyXavier Herbert (1976) The Glass CanoebyDavid Ireland (1977) Swords and Crowns and RingsbyRuth Park (1978) A Woman of the FuturebyDavid Ireland (1979)
1980–1989	The ImpersonatorsbyJessica Anderson (1980) BlissbyPeter Carey (1981) Just RelationsbyRodney Hall (1982) No award (1983) ShallowsbyTim Winton (1984) The DoublemanbyChristopher Koch (1985) The WellbyElizabeth Jolley (1986) Dancing on CoralbyGlenda Adams (1987) No award (1988) Oscar and LucindabyPeter Carey (1989)
1990–1999	Oceana FinebyTom Flood (1990) The Great WorldbyDavid Malouf (1991) CloudstreetbyTim Winton (1992) The Ancestor GamebyAlex Miller (1993) The Grisly WifebyRodney Hall (1994) The Hand That Signed the PaperbyHelen Darville (1995) Highways to a WarbyChristopher Koch (1996) The Glade Within the GrovebyDavid Foster (1997) Jack MaggsbyPeter Carey (1998) EucalyptusbyMurray Bail (1999)
2000–2009	DrylandsbyThea Astley (2000) BenangbyKim Scott (2000) Dark PalacebyFrank Moorhouse (2001) Dirt MusicbyTim Winton (2002) Journey to the Stone CountrybyAlex Miller (2003) The Great FirebyShirley Hazzard (2004) The White EarthbyAndrew McGahan (2005) The Ballad of Desmond KalebyRoger McDonald (2006) CarpentariabyAlexis Wright (2007) The Time We Have TakenbySteven Carroll (2008) BreathbyTim Winton (2009)
2010–2019	TruthbyPeter Temple (2010) That Deadman DancebyKim Scott (2011) All That I AmbyAnna Funder (2012) Questions of TravelbyMichelle de Kretser (2013) All the Birds, SingingbyEvie Wyld (2014) The Eye of the SheepbySofie Laguna (2015) Black Rock White CitybyA. S. Patrić (2016) ExtinctionsbyJosephine Wilson (2017) The Life to ComebyMichelle de Kretser (2018) Too Much LipbyMelissa Lucashenko (2019)
2020–present	The YieldbyTara June Winch (2020) The LabyrinthbyAmanda Lohrey (2021) Bodies of LightbyJennifer Down (2022) Chai Time at Cinnamon GardensbyShankari Chandran (2023)

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