A Dutiful Daughter: Text Classics
By (Author) Thomas Keneally
Introduction by Geordie Williamson
Text Publishing
The Text Publishing Company
2nd April 2019
Australia
General
Fiction
Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales
Paperback
268
Width 129mm, Height 196mm, Spine 13mm
154g
It is the duty of a good child to let his parents know the second they turn into animals.
Barbara Glovers parents metamorphosed when she hit puberty, becoming bovine from the waist down. Fearful of her transformative powers, she tends diligently to them, keeping them like animals on the familys remote farm andalong with her brother, Damian, who harbours incestuous longings for herprotecting their terrible secret from the world. First published in 1971, Thomas Keneallys A Dutiful Daughter is strange and disturbing, and utterly unlike any other Australian novel.
`Authentically marvellous. * New York Times *
`One of the most startling menages ever. * Kirkus Review *
`A very strange tale of a very strange family. * ABC RN *
Thomas Keneally was born in 1935 in country New South Wales. In 1958 he entered the seminary but left before being ordained. He published his first book, The Place at Whitton, in 1964. He won the Miles Franklin Literary Award for Bring Larks and Heroes (1967) and Three Cheers for the Paraclete (1968), and was shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize before becoming the first Australian ever to win it: for Schindlers Ark, in 1982. Keneally has written over thirty books, both fiction and non-fiction, as well as plays and essays.