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	Australian Authors - Thea Astley (1925-2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Thea Astley was born in Brisbane in 1925, educated at the University of Queensland before teaching in schools in both Queensland and New South Wales.
		Astley won the Miles Franklin Award four times: The Well Dressed Explorer in 1962 (sharing the award with George Turner), The Slow Natives in 1965, The Acolyte in 1972, and for Drylands in 2000.
		Thea Astley is featured on the Albert Street (Brisbane) literary trail, which commemorates authors who have used Brisbane as a locale.
	www.middlemiss.org /lit/authors/astleyt/astleyt.html (168 words)

	A Kindness Cup- Thea Astley Essay \| Student Essays
		Astley reconstructs the idea of normality during the latter half of the nineteenth century in Queensland as a means to communicate to post colonial readers the injustice any marginalised group must endure.
		Astley draws parallels between Lunt and the Aborigines, both are subjected to violence and share a love for the land, shown by Astley's description of Lunt as `he bent down'`took a pinch of dust'`and swallowed'.
		Astley's description of Aborigines, using language features and the characterisation of Lunt, position the readers to feel sympathetic towards such a marginalised group, although through the reaction of Lunt to Dorahy and Boyd's attempts at justice (`Damn you') it is evident that Astley is communicating that the Aborigines do not wish to be pitied.
	www.bookrags.com /essay-2005/2/16/6488/98014 (842 words)

	thea astley - australian author
		Thea Astley was born in Brisbane in 1925, and educated at All Hallows Convent before studying arts at the University of Queensland, graduating Teacher's Training College and becoming a teacher.
		Astley draws heavily on observed people, as she believes that she can't write about people that she knows, as she can't let her mind wander free.
		All these factors regarding Thea Astley's life have an impact on how It's Raining in Mango is written, its characters, the issues it presents, its setting and its portrayal of Aboriginals.
	tarnish.net /astley.html (648 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Slow Natives: Books: Thea Astley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Astley has a gift for offbeat characterizations, including Keith's homosexual tutor, who takes his students surfing; a nun who pours her unfulfilled passion into her piano playing; and an unhappy priest who is unsure of his calling.
		Astley's message in this graceful study of human nature, seems to be that routine leads to boredom, and boredom leads to a general dulling of the emotions.
		Astley treats her subject with a gentle, and generous humour while examining such issues as guilt, sin, forgiveness, and the midlife crisis--displacedhuman
	www.amazon.ca /Slow-Natives-Thea-Astley/dp/0399138757 (1054 words)

	Astley dies at 78 - Books - www.theage.com.au
		The acclaimed Australian novelist Thea Astley has died, a week before her 79th birthday and a year after announcing her retirement for the second time.
		Astley published her first novel, Girl with a Monkey, in 1958 and kept writing while she raised her son, Ed, and worked as a schoolteacher and a fellow at Macquarie University.
		Thea Astley's novels twice won The Age Book of the Year: in 1975 for A Kindness Cup; and 1996 for The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/08/17/1092508474802.html (380 words)

	AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE: MILES FRANKLIN AWARD
		"Thea Astley's Drylands, which depicts the disaffection and alienation of a small town, and Kim Scott's Benang, which "lifts you with its grandness" into the heart of "the first white man born", took out equal honours in the celebrated and often controversial prize.
		Thea Astley has won this prestigious award four times and this is the second time that she has shared it.
		In 1962, Thea Astley won the prize the first time with her novel The Well Dressed Explorer and shared the prize with George Turner's The Cupboard Under the Stairs.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/6882/41954 (526 words)

	Amazon.com: Coda: Books: Thea Astley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Astley paints a bleak portrait of contemporary Australia, a land of malls, automobiles and disrupted families.
		Acclaimed Australian writer Astley (The Slow Natives, LJ 9/1/93) turns her characteristically elegant prose to an examination of the predicaments of aging, as personified by Kathleen, an elderly widow facing loss within herself and without.
		Thea Astley describes the ordinairy life of the charming elderly lady Kathleen Hackendorf from the first person viewpoint.
	www.amazon.com /Coda-Thea-Astley/dp/0436202883 (1028 words)

	Amazon.com: Drylands: Books: Thea Astley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Astley captures and imparts it all, in prose and love of country that can only be described as passionate.
		Astley is one of Australia's most prolific, versatile and socially conscious writers, and "Drylands" is one of her better works.
		Astley's vision has a stark and pitiless precision - the characters and settings are vividly realized and instantly recognisable as Australian without ever being clich.
	www.amazon.com /Drylands-Thea-Astley/dp/0140283803 (1398 words)

	Kerryn Goldsworthy
		Drylands is Astley's Waste Land, with a cast of exhausted and alienated characters wandering through it in the death-grip of entropy, pursued by fin de siècle furies and other personifications of failure and defeat.
		Astley's body of work over the last forty years adds up to a protracted study in the way that full-scale violence and tragedy can flower extravagantly from the withered seeds of malice and resentment, and this book is no exception.
		The first of the classic Astley drifters to whom we are introduced, the widowed Janet Deakin, is 'writing a book for the world's last reader'.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~abr/Sept99/kg.html (582 words)

	English Literature Essays -- It's Raining in Mango
		Thea Astley’s It’s Raining in Mango (1987) is a story of Australian history told through five generations of the Laffey family.
		Astley introduces several issues to the reader that were and still are part of Australian society.
		In response to this, Astley constructs all narrations to be written through the eyes of the Laffey family, who are respectful towards Aboriginals, hence not racist, and despise societal ideologies.
	www.123helpme.com /preview.asp?id=36752 (1687 words)

	Literary world mourns Thea Astley - Books - www.smh.com.au
		The acclaimed novelist Thea Astley has died, a week before her 79th birthday and a year after announcing her retirement for the second time.
		Astley published her first novel, Girl with a Monkey, in 1958 and kept writing while she raised her son, Ed, and worked as "Mrs Gregson", a schoolteacher and a fellow at Macquarie University.
		She and her husband, Jack Gregson, moved from the Sydney suburb of Epping to Kuranda in north Queensland and Nowra on the NSW South Coast.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/08/17/1092508478102.html (420 words)

	Thea Astley dies - Books - www.smh.com.au
		Ms Astley, who was born in Brisbane, won the prestigious Miles Franklin award four times for her books The Well Dressed Explorer, The Slow Natives, The Acolyte and Drylands.
		Ms Astley graduated from the University of Queensland in 1947 and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters in 1988.
		Ms Inglis said she was "being terrified of sending any letter to Thea which might have contained an error" and had asked others to carefully proofread her correspondence.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/08/17/1092508464989.html?from=storyrhs (213 words)

	Amazon.ca: Well Dressed Explorer: Books: Thea Astley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Astley's (An Item from the Late News, etc.) writing often calls attention to itself, but there are also passages of salient beauty in this formidable and enduring novel.
		Astley's third novel won the Miles Franklin Award, one of Australia's most prestigious literary prizes.
		George Brewster is an involuted loser, and Astley takes us firmly through his romantic disasters.
	www.amazon.ca /Well-Dressed-Explorer-Thea-Astley/dp/0140098828 (323 words)

	UQP
		Thea Astley was born in Brisbane and studied at the University of Queensland.
		Her first collection of short stories, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, won the Townsville Literary Foundation Award in 1979, and It's Raining in Mango won the Steel Rudd Award and the 1988 FAW ANA Literature Award.
		Thea Astley lived and wrote on the New South Wales south coast until her death in 2004.
	www.uqp.uq.edu.au /author_details.php?id=25 (139 words)

	A Character Analysis of Toff Briceland Essay \| Student Essays
		Summary: This essay is about the character Toff Briceland in the novel "Drylands" by Thea Astley, and his evolution throughout the story.
		Thea Astley, the author of the novel explores the attitudes of a teenage `pest' in the way that they fit in with to title of `Drylands'.
		Drylands is Astley's Waste Land, with characters that are exhausted and alienated, pursued by personifications of failure and defeat.
	www.bookrags.com /essay-2004/8/16/45722/8394 (1092 words)

	The late Thea Astley, award-winning writer - Alumni at The University of Queensland
		So wrote novelist and short story writer, the late Dr Thea Astley AO, who won many of Australia's major literary awards and earned a widespread reputation both in Australia and overseas.
		After completing a Bachelor of Arts at The University of Queensland in 1947, Ms Astley taught at schools in Queensland and New South Wales until 1967 and at Macquarie University in Sydney from 1968 until 1980.
		Ms Astley died in early August, 2004, in northern New South Wales after suffering a heart attack.
	www.alumni.uq.edu.au /index.html?page=287 (286 words)

	The Australian: When Books Die: 15 Essays [ 28oct06 ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The musty physical spaces of the privileged aristocratic book world are placed in an essay at the centre of When Books Die, leaving the smaller, personal spaces of reading to open out in essays on either side.
		One is reminded, in some, of Thea Astley's wonderful phrase, "suspected of reading"; of reading as a secretive and socially subversive act.
		A hint of this comes through in the story of bookbinder Phil Day, who read the Gospels in the bath at 15; or Rosemary Sorensen trying not to feel guilty, even now, for telling her mother she is in bed until midday, reading.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /printpage/0,5942,20637997,00.html (735 words)

	Award-winning author Thea Astley dies. 17/08/2004. ABC News Online
		Award-winning Brisbane author Thea Astley has died aged 78.
		Author Thea Astley has died in northern New South Wales after suffering a heart attack last week.
		Dr Astley graduated from the University of Queensland in 1947 and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters in 1988.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200408/s1178577.htm (175 words)

	International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award
		Thea Astley is one of Australia's most celebrated writers.
		Other awards include the 1986 ALS Gold Medal for Beachmasters, the 1988 Steele Rudd Award for 'It's Raining in Mango', the 1990 NSW Premier's Prize for 'Reaching Tin River', and the 1996 'Age' Book of the Year Award and the FAW Australian Unity Award for 'The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow'.
		Thea Astley held a position as Fellow in Australian Literature at Macquarie University until 1980, when she retired to write full time.
	www.impacdublinaward.ie /2001/drylands.htm (340 words)

	TIME.com: Special from No Man's Land -- Oct. 20, 1967 -- Page 2
		There is a convent near Brisbane, Australia, where the nuns serve visitors a specialty of their religious house: confiture of prickly pear.
		This exotic jam might well symbolize the theme of Thea Astley's novel, in which the harsh products of Australian soil undergo the painful process of civilization.
		Novelist Astley, a writer new to the U.S., dresses her old-fashioned pieties in mod prose.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,902159-2,00.html (728 words)

	Thea Astley dies - Books - www.smh.com.au (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Thea Astley dies - Books - www.smh.com.au (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)
		She also won a number of other major Australian literary awards.
		Ms Astley died this morning after suffering a heart attack last week, her agent Fiona Inglis said.
	www.smh.com.au.cob-web.org:8888 /articles/2004/08/17/1092508464989.html?from=storylhs (223 words)

	Reaching Toward 'the Center' - Robert L. Ross
		Could Coda be described, even dismissed, as a minimalist work with a maximum amount of meanness embedded in the narrative?
		Called by one critic "a marvel of compression," Thea Astley's new novel distills a not very pleasant lifetime into vivid fragments.
		Did Astley, who has talent to spare, go too far this time, fritter away this ability on a tasteless exercise, hit an unlucky note in her thirteenth novel?
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1995/february/Sa13074.htm (181 words)

	Malouf presses for novel reprints \| Books \| The Australian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Malouf, whom many consider to be our finest living writer, said: "There is a large body of what we used to think of as essential reading in Australian literature that is no longer readily available."
		Novels that have won the Miles Franklin, the country's most prestigious literary award, but are now out of print include Thea Astley's The Acolyte, David Ireland's The Glass Canoe, Peter Mathers's Trap and Tom Flood's Oceana Fine.
		According to Jose, the following are out of print: three novels by Helen Garner, including the critically acclaimed Cosmo Cosmolino; six novels by Thea Astley; and nine works by Stead, including the seminal The Man Who Loved Children.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20912098-5001986,00.html (413 words)

	Curtis Brown Australia represents ASTLEY Thea (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		She was a teacher who was born in
		In 1962, Thea won her first Miles Franklin Award for The Well Dressed Explorer, and she was subsequently awarded three more Miles Franklin Awards for The Slow Natives in 1965, The Acolyte in 1972 and for Drylands, in 2000.
		Thea’s The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow was the 1996 The Age Book of the Year.
	www.curtisbrown.com.au.cob-web.org:8888 /estates-detail.asp?id=370 (71 words)

	australia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		"Impressive work from contemporaries like Thea Astley and Elizabeth Jolley, are accompanied by several superb fictions from Australia's most well-known writers."
		By traveling with the greatest Australian writers who know the land best, readers can more deeply experience the culture of this country and the rich tradition of its literature.
		CONTRIBUTORS: Thea Astley, Murray Bail, Barbara Baynton, Peter Carey, Eleanor Dark, Robert Drewe, Helen Garner, Xavier Herbert, Janette Turner Hospital, Elizabeth Jolley, C.J. Koch, David Malouf, Oodgeroo and Kabul Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Henry Lawson, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Steele Rudd, Mandy Sayer, Arthur Upfield, Judah Waten, Archie Weller, Patrick White, Michael Wilding, Tim Winton, B. Wongar.
	www.whereaboutspress.com.cob-web.org:8888 /html/aus.html (277 words)

	Drylands by Thea Astley, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 067088619X
		Drylands by Thea Astley, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 067088619X
		Drylands: A book for the world's last reader (By Thea Astley)
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	www.bookfinder4u.com /detail/067088619X.html (279 words)

	It's raining in Mango por Thea Astley \| LibraryThing
		It's raining in Mango por Thea Astley
		An item from the late news por Thea Astley (3/7)
		Leaning towards infinity : how my mother's apron unfolds into my life por Sue Woolfe (4/22)
	www.librarything.es /work/299597 (235 words)

	It's raining in Mango par Thea Astley \| LibraryThing
		It's raining in Mango par Thea Astley
		An item from the late news par Thea Astley (3/7)
		Leaning towards infinity : how my mother's apron unfolds into my life par Sue Woolfe (4/22)
	www.librarything.fr /work/299597 (227 words)

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