The Well
Virago Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-349-02127-0 (ISBN)
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'What have you brought me, Hester? What have you brought me from the shop?'
'I've brought Katherine, Father,' Miss Harper said. 'I've brought Katherine, but she's for me.'
Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings a young woman into her isolated existence on an Australian sheep farm. Together she and Katherine sew, cook gourmet meals for two, run the farm, make music and throw away their dirty dishes. Then one night, driving along the deserted track home, they hit a mysterious creature. They heave the body from the roo bar and dump it into the farm's deep well, where Hester knows it will never be found. But Katherine, drawn closer and closer to the edge of the well, begins to hear the voice of the injured intruder . . .
'Jolley is one of our most daring writers' HELEN GARNER
Elizabeth Jolley (1923-2007) was a critically acclaimed, bestselling author in Australia in the 1980s and 1990s. The Well won the Miles Franklin Award in 1986. Her friend and colleague at Curtin, writer Philip Salom, describes her work as 'mirth and malice'. In 2005, The Age newspaper wrote 'Elizabeth Jolley has been a gentle giant of the Australian literary world'; Susan Sheridan called her 'one of the great originals of Australian literature'. Born in England in 1923, she was brought up in a strict, German-speaking household and attended a Quaker boarding school. She became a nurse, married Leonard Jolley and with three children moved to Western Australia in 1959. In 1974 she started teaching creative writing at Fremantle Arts Centre. Although she wrote all her life, it was not until she was in her fifties that her books started to receive the recognition they deserved. She won The Age Book of the Year Award on three separate occasions (for Mr Scobie's Riddle, My Father's Moon and The Georges' Wife) and she won the Miles Franklin Award for The Well, as well as many other awards. Her last two novels published by Penguin were An Accommodating Spouse (1999) and An Innocent Gentleman (2001). Her non-fiction collection, Learning to Dance was published in 2006.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.10.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 126 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
| ISBN-10 | 0-349-02127-9 / 0349021279 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-349-02127-0 / 9780349021270 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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