A Dutiful Daughter
Edition: 1st aus ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A haunting work of Australian literary fiction, A Dutiful Daughter chronicles the strange and surreal fate of the Glover family, trapped in a remote coastal farmstead where the boundary between the human and the animal has grotesquely collapsed. Thomas Keneally constructs a fable-like narrative around Barbara Glover, a young woman of fierce intelligence and quiet devotion, who tends to her parents after they undergo a disturbing, half-human transformation. The novel balances visceral, unsettling imagery with a deeply compassionate examination of duty, sacrifice, and the suffocating bonds of family obligation. Written with the mythic intensity that marks Keneally's finest work, it argues that love and loyalty can persist even in the most monstrous of circumstances. Darkly poetic and morally complex, it stands as one of the more daring and underappreciated works in twentieth-century Australian literature.
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Edition: 1st aus ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A haunting work of Australian literary fiction, A Dutiful Daughter chronicles the strange and surreal fate of the Glover family, trapped in a remote coastal farmstead where the boundary between the human and the animal has grotesquely collapsed. Thomas Keneally constructs a fable-like narrative around Barbara Glover, a young woman of fierce intelligence and quiet devotion, who tends to her parents after they undergo a disturbing, half-human transformation. The novel balances visceral, unsettling imagery with a deeply compassionate examination of duty, sacrifice, and the suffocating bonds of family obligation. Written with the mythic intensity that marks Keneally's finest work, it argues that love and loyalty can persist even in the most monstrous of circumstances. Darkly poetic and morally complex, it stands as one of the more daring and underappreciated works in twentieth-century Australian literature.
