The Slow Natives

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penquin Books
Publisher Place: Ringwood
Publisher Year: 1990
Edition: Reprint

Description: 209 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The winner of Australias prize for lifetime achievement in literature chronicles one familys unraveling and their tentative rapprochement forged through tragedy. "Sheer pleasure," is how Newsday described Thea Astleys most recent book, Vanishing Points. Now, with The Slow Natives, Astleys wit, sense of irony, and ability to delineate human foibles link her to such great observers of the human comedy as Graham Greene and Iris Murdoch. The Slow Natives takes place on that familiar battleground where middle age and adolescence confront each other, in a climate of hostile bewilderment, contempt, and reluctant love. At its center are music teacher Bernard Leverson, bored with his job and his marriage; his wife, Iris, who is engaged listlessly in an affair; and their rebellious teenage son, Keith. Their path leads inevitably to tragedy, but also presses the Leversons toward a reappreciation of their lives and one another. Here is a novel that confirms Thea Astley as one of the best writers of our time.

ISBN: 9780140134117