Couverture de Hunting the Wild Pineapple

Hunting the Wild Pineapple

 Aperçu
Offre à durée limitée

3 mois d'Audible Standard gratuits

3 mois pour 0,00 €/mois, puis 5,99 €/mois. Possibilité de résilier chaque mois.
Essayez pour 0,00 €/mois
L'offre prend fin le 15 Juillet 2026 à 23 h 59.
Plus d'options d'achat

Hunting the Wild Pineapple

De : Thea Astley
Lu par : James Wright
Essayez pour 0,00 €/mois

3 mois pour 0,99 €/mois, puis 5,99 €/mois. Possibilité de résilier chaque mois. Offre valable jusqu'au 15 juillet 2026 à 23 h 59.

Acheter pour 14,99 €

Acheter pour 14,99 €

Leverson, the narrator at the centre of these stories, calls himself a 'people freak'. Seduced by north Queensland's sultry beauty and unique strangeness, he is as fascinated by the invading hordes of misfits from the south as by the old established Queenslanders. Leverson's ironical yet compassionate view makes every story, every incident, a pointed example of human weakness - or strength.©1979 Thea Astley. By arrangement with Penguin Group (Australia). (P)1999 Bolinda Publishing Anthologies et nouvelles Fiction
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1

Avis de l'équipe

Imagine James Joyce’s Dubliners displaced to the tropical milieu of North Queensland and narrated by a wry, painfully self-aware and keenly perceptive middle-aged "monopod" failure named Leverson and you’ll come close award-winning Australian author Thea Astley’s superb collection of short stories, originally released in 1979, that run the gamut of human emotion and experience in its depiction of a varied cast of island denizens.

James Wright’s soulful performance masterfully captures the subtle undercurrent of optimism and warmth that runs through Leverson’s acerbic observations as well as the mosaic of Australian cadences and eccentric personalities that populate Astley's wonderfully realized Hunting the Wild Pineapple.

Commentaires

"This book raises Thea Astley's reputation even higher than it was. It is a measure not only of her knowledge, but of her curiosity, and it demonstrates the magnitude of her skills." (Australian Book Review)
Aucun commentaire pour le moment