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Ideal for readers interested in arts and culture, literary history, and passionate real-life love stories with a tragic edge.
Wild, passionate and ultimately tragic: thelove story of Australia's famous literary couple, Charmian Clift and George Johnston,plays out on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra in the 1950s in this reimaginingfrom award-winning playwright Sue Smith.
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Wild, passionate and ultimately tragic: the love story of Australia's famous literary couple, Charmian Clift and George Johnston, plays out on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra in the 1950s in this reimagining from award-winning playwright Sue Smith.
Weaving in text from Clift and Johnston's own writing, and including an introduction and extra materials, Hydra brings these remarkable artists to life.
'An instant classic.' - The Courier Mail
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An instant classic. – The Courier Mail
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ISBN: 9781742236544
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 May 2019
Country: Australia
Imprint: NewSouth Publishing
Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly
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Spine width: 7.0mm
Width: 139.0mm
Height: 208.0mm
Weight: 135g
Pages: 96
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About the Author
Sue Smith is a multi-award winning screenwriter, playwright and script editor. Sue’s recent screen credits include co-writer of feature film Saving Mr Banks (2013, Disney Pictures), ABC telemovie MABO (screened SFF in 2012 and winning an AWGIE and Queensland Literary Award), ABC miniseries Bastard Boys (won AFI Award for Best Screenplay in Television), feature film Peaches (nominated AWGIE Award) and SBS miniseries RAN, which Sue co-wrote with John Alsop and Alice Addison, receiving another AFI Award for Best Screenplay in Television. Other credits include telemovies Temptation and The Road From Coorain and more. Sue was the STC Patrick White Playwrights Fellow for 2018, and received the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Australian Writers’ Guild.
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