The Impersonators
By (Author) Jessica Anderson
Sydney University Press
Sydney University Press
1st December 2003
Australia
Professional and Scholarly
Fiction
Paperback
264
Width 148mm, Height 210mm
The Impersonatorsportrays the breakdown of family relationships and the endurance of love in a materialistic age sensitively, perceptively and humorously. When Sylvia Foley returns to Australia after twenty years, she finds her father, Jack Cornock, ill. This and his obstinate silence provoke speculation about his will among the families of his two marriages. Sylvia becomes enmeshed in the webs of their alliances and disaffections. The Impersonators received the Miles Franklin Award in 1980, and the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Fiction in 1981.