Dispossessed: A Tale of Modern Rural Australia - Softcover

Hodgins, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0207182949 ISBN 13: 9780207182945

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

It is 1988, the year of celebrations. But not everyone feels invited. During the last weeks before eviction from their land, a farming family is dispossessed more than once. Against the myth of idyllic rural life, Dispossessed gives another vision. Here is a stark account of this family losing their identity, as well as the more familiar images from the bush: the birth and death of animals, the rhythms of working the land, and the excesses of nature. In this vivid novella, written in blank verse, Philip Hodgins finds powerful metaphors for Australia's recent past. It is 1988, the year of celebrations. But not everyone feels invited. During the last weeks before eviction from their land, a farming family is dispossessed more than once. Against the myth of idyllic rural life, Dispossessed gives another vision. Here is a stark account of this family losing their identity, as well as the more familiar images from the bush: the birth and death of animals, the rhythms of working the land, and the excesses of nature. In this vivid novella, written in blank verse, Philip Hodgins finds powerful metaphors for Australia's recent past.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0207182949
• ISBN 13: 9780207182945
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 120