Wake In Fright (Text Classics) - Softcover

Kenneth Cook

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1921922168 ISBN 13: 9781921922169

Publisher: TEXT PUBLISHING COMPANY, 2013

Synopsis

Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant's journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. A middle class teacher, he finds himself trapped in a nightmarish outback community crippled by gambling debts. An undisputed modern classic, it is the original and the greatest outback horror story. The small mining town of Bundanyabba - ""The Yabba"" - and its citizens will forever haunt its readers.

About this title

About the Author

Kenneth Cook was born in Sydney. Wake in Fright, which drew on his time as a journalist in Broken Hill, was first published in 1961 when Cook was thirty-two. It was published in England and America, translated into several languages, and a prescribed text in schools. Cook wrote twenty-one books in a variety of genres, and was well known in film circles as a scriptwriter and independent film-maker. He died in 1987 at the age of fifty-seven.

Peter Temple has worked extensively as a journalist and editor for newspapers and magazines in several countries. He has won five Ned Kelly Awards for his novels, and won the world&;s most prestigious crimewriting prize, the Duncan Lawrie Dagger. In 2010 he was awarded Australia&;s greatest writing prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award. His books are published in more than twenty countries.

David Stratton is co-presenter of At the Movies on ABC television and film critic for the Australian. He has also served as a President of the International Critics Jury for the Cannes and Venice Film Festivals, written three books and is currently lecturing in Film History at the University of Sydney.

Edition details

• Publisher: TEXT PUBLISHING COMPANY
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1921922168
• ISBN 13: 9781921922169
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224