A Descant For Gossips

Author: Thea Astley

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Price : $19.95 AUD
ISBN : 9780702253553
Publisher : University of Queensland Press
Imprint : University of Queensland Press
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Weight (g) : 0.242
Publication date : 01 April 2015
Dimensions : 1.9 Centimeters X 13 Centimeters X 19.8 Centimeters
Produced in : Australia
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Author : Thea Astley
Series : UQP Modern Classics
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Edition : 1
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 823
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Description

In this classic story of small-town life, two schoolteachers are drawn to each other by their concern for a lonely young girl. For as long as Vinny Lalor could remember, she had been on the fringe of things - in her family and at school. But as the final term of the year progresses, rumour and malice mount against Vinny and her two teachers, sweeping them towards scandal and, for one of them, disaster. A Descant for Gossips was Thea Astley's second novel, released in 1960 in England and Australia. In 1983 it was successfully adapted for television by the ABC.

Acknowledgement of country

The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.