The Visit - Couverture souple

Witting, Amy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1925498131 ISBN 13 : 9781925498134

Editeur : The Text Publishing Company, 2017

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Amy Witting was born in Annandale, an inner suburb of Sydney, in 1918. She attended Sydney University, then taught French and English in state schools. Beginning late in life she published six novels, including The Visit (1977), I for Isobel (1990), A Change In The Lighting (1994), Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop (Penguin Australia, 1999) and Maria's War (Penguin Australia, 1998); two collections of short stories; two books of verse, Travel Diary (Woodbine Press, 1985) and Beauty Is The Straw (Angus & Robertson, 1991); and her Collected Poems (Penguin Australia, 1998). She had numerous poems and short stories published in magazines such as Quadrant and The New Yorker. Witting was awarded the 1993 Patrick White Prize. Susan Johnson was born in Brisbane and spent her childhood in Sydney. She is currently Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing, Queensland University of Technology. She is the author of ten books including Flying Lessons (Heinemann, 1990), A Big Life (Macmillan, 1993), Women Love Sex (Vintage, 1996), Life in Seven Mistakes (Heinemann, 2008) and The Landing (Allen & Unwin, 2015).

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Visit is a sensitive and keenly observed portrait of a rural Australian town called Bangoree in the 1970s, centring on the social life of a group of 'local intellectuals.'

In The Visit - Amy Witting's debut novel, first published when she was almost sixty - a group of Bangoree residents gather to read plays by Beckett and Brecht. But their literary pursuits, and their lives, take an unexpected turn after it is revealed that the late Roderick Fitzallan set some of his celebrated love poems in their small country town. Who is the local mystery woman who inspired Fitzallan's verse all those years ago?

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Text Publishing Company
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1925498131
• ISBN 13: 9781925498134
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible