Lilian's Story by Kate Grenville (Hardcover 1985) 1st Edition Australian Fiction
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Gatsby's Fremantle Western Australia Lilian's Story by Kate Grenville (Hardcover 1985) 1st Edition Australian Fiction By Kate Grenville 1985 Hardcover Viking, New York Description Title: Lilian's Story by Kate Grenville Author/Publisher: Kate Grenville, Viking (New York) Publication Year: 1985 Format: Hardcover Synopsys: The story of Lilian Singer is based on the real-life character of Bea Miles (1902–73), an eccentric Sydney 'madwoman' who was given to walking the Sydney streets quoting Shakespeare and jumping into other people's taxis. Critic Peter Craven looked back on the book after it had been in print for thirty years: "Kate Grenville's Lilian's Story is one of the great Australian novels of the last thirty years. When it was first published in 1985, it was immediately hailed as a masterpiece...The first thing to notice about Lilian's Story is the richness of the language. And it's worth noting, in the light of Patrick White’s commendation, that the rhetorical, highly coloured language – both the writing looked at as the style of the novel and the richness of the first-person narrative that declares itself as Lilian's voice, as this super bright, superior, weird character telling her own story – is rich and poetical (some people would say to the point of being 'purple') in a way that shows White’s influence...Lilian’s Story is one of the most remarkable pieces of late-twentieth-century Australian fiction not only because of its richness of orchestration and the original
- Publisher: Viking, New York
- Year: 1985
- Binding: Hardcover
- Condition: Very Good
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