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The Women in Black
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Series: Text Classics
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The Women in Black
Written by a superb novelist of contemporary manners, this is a fairytale which illuminates the extraordinariness of ordinary lives.
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At the very end of the Ladies' Frocks Departments, past Cocktail Frocks, there was something very special, something quite, quite wonderful; but it wasn't for everybody: that was the point. Because there, at the very end, there was a lovely arch, on which was written in curly letters Model Gowns.
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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A novel by Madeleine St John is praised for its humour, tenderness, and elegant prose. It captures 1950s Australia with wit and charm, interweaving light, comic touches with poignant observations. Readers appreciate its vivid depiction of the period and its subtle argument for societal change.
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ISBN: 9781921922299
Publisher: Text Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 April 2012
Country: Australia
Imprint: The Text Publishing Company
Contributors:
- Introduction by Bruce Beresford
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Madeleine St John is the author of A Pure Clear Light, The Essence of the Thing (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize), and Stairway to Paradise.
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