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Ideas, news, reflections, gossip, pictures, reviews and scuttlebutt: a partial and personal view.
This photo was taken looking south from a crossroads in the middle of Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, which is the bit that looks like a boot: not the elegant heeled boot of Italy, but a humble foursquare working boot. About 300 metres down the road on the left is the gate to the home paddock of the house I grew up in, and another 5 km or so after that, my home town of Curramulka. This is the landscape I was talking about in my story 'Limestone', in North of the Moonlight Sonata.
The country spread away around them to the horizon in curved layers of pastel colours that were too quiet and weird to have names, gently arched, bands of colour ... This country made you work for the bread of beauty. You had to look and strain and think and stretch your mind to the horizon.
The country spread away around them to the horizon in curved layers of pastel colours that were too quiet and weird to have names, gently arched, bands of colour ... This country made you work for the bread of beauty. You had to look and strain and think and stretch your mind to the horizon.
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- Read, Think, Write is dedicated to all things books and writing. It incorporates two previous blogs, Australian Literature Diary (2005-2010) and Ask the Brontë Sisters (May-July 2007). Still Life With Cat is an all-purpose blog containing reflections on whatever is going on in the realms of literature, politics, media, music, dinner, gardening etc. Blogs by Kerryn Goldsworthy, a writer, critic and editor who lives and works in Adelaide, South Australia.
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4 comments:
Thanks Kerryn,
the first review I've read of it.
:-)
Angela
As a big fan of 'The Secret River', i can't wait to read this. I did see Kates interview on the 7.30 report and she was quite accepting of the criticism that was cast her way post Secret river, predominantly from historians. here again she offers up another book set in colonial Australia. Should be great!
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