Bibliograph

The drover's wife, the legend of Molly Johnson, Leah Purcell

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The drover's wife, the legend of Molly Johnson, Leah Purcell

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The drover's wife

Responsibility statement

Leah Purcell

Sub title

the legend of Molly Johnson

Summary

Leah Purcell's play caused a sensation on performance and won the NSW Premier's Prize Book of the Year and now she is expanding that play and a film script to write a novel that while still 'Tarantino meets Deadwood' is also so much more. In the titular character The Drover's Wife, Purcell has created a figure who is as resonant and significant as Ned Kelly. Lawson's original short story is reimagined vividly to portray the drover's heroic wife as a righteous avenger - on behalf of herself, her children and her race - in a savage male world. Challenging responses to family violence and black white relations. A taut thriller of our pioneering past, The Drover's Wife is full of fury, power, family love and intimate friendships. And has a black sting to the tail, reaching from our nation's settled infancy into our complicated present

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Legend of Molly Johnson

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