Craft For A Dry Lake
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Craft For A Dry Lake
By (Author) Kim Mahood
Transworld Publishers (Division of Random House Australia)
Anchor (Australia)
7th April 2000
Australia
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Indigenous peoples
305.89915
Winner of NSW Premier's Literary Award Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction 2001
Physical Properties
Paperback
272
Width 135mm, Height 209mm, Spine 20mm
278g
Description
Winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction,The Age Book of the Year Award for Non-fiction, The Dobbie Prize for Best First Book. A lyrical memoir from a first-time author that has won critical acclaim Australia-wide. In the tradition of Drusilla Modjeska's Poppy, Mahood offers an intense and sensitive exploration of identity, familial ties and black/white relations in Australia. Craft For A Dry Lake is a memoir that will touch the hearts and souls of every Australian. In Craft For A Dry Lake Kim Mahood takes us on a lyrical journey to her heartland - travelling with her beloved cattle dog back into the Outback of her youth, seeking to lay to rest her father's ghost but finding herself faced with many of her own.
Author Bio
Kim Mahood is an artist who divides her time between Canberra, where she teaches art , and Queensland, with extended periods spent in Kangaroo Valley and the Outback. She also teaches a course in sculpture at the Centre of Continuing Education at Sydney University.
