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The Women in Black: Gift Edition
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The Women in Black: Gift Edition
A beautiful gift edition of Madeleine St John's bestselling, much-loved novel—now a major film by Bruce Beresford and successful stage musical by Tim Finn under the title Ladies in Black.
A beautiful hardback gift edition of Madeleine St John's bestselling, much-loved novel-now a major film by Bruce Beresford and successful stage musical by Tim Finn.
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A beautiful hardback gift edition of Madeleine St John's bestselling, much-loved novel—now a major film by Bruce Beresford and a successful stage musical by Tim Finn.
Written by a superb novelist of contemporary manners, The Women in Black is a fairytale which illuminates the extraordinariness of ordinary lives.
The women in black are run off their feet, what with the Christmas rush and the summer sales that follow. But it's Sydney in the 1950s, and there's still just enough time left on a hot and frantic day to dream and scheme... By the time the last marked-down frock has been sold, most of the staff of the Ladies' Cocktail section at F. G. Goode's have been launched into slightly different careers.
With the lightest touch and the most tender of comic instincts, Madeleine St John conjures a vanished summer of innocence. The Women in Black is a great novel, a lost Australian classic.
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The Women in Black: Gift Edition by Madeleine St John has been praised for its wit, humour, and finely tuned observations. Reviewers highlight its warmth and irony, calling it a small masterpiece with a sophisticated blend of sharp insights and sly humour. The novel's tone is celebrated for its life-affirming and brisk elegance, capturing a Sydney poised for modern transformation.
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ISBN: 9781925773330
Publisher: Text Publishing
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 03 December 2018
Country: Australia
Imprint: The Text Publishing Company
Edition: New edition
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 138.0mm
Height: 205.0mm
Weight: 322g
Pages: 240
About the Author
Madeleine St John was born in Sydney in 1941. She studied Arts at Sydney University, where her contemporaries included Bruce Beresford, Germaine Greer, Clive James and Robert Hughes. In 1993, St John published her first novel, The Women in Black, the only book she set in Australia. Her third novel, The Essence of the Thing (1997), was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
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