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A Kindness Cup,
single work
novel
historical fiction
'I told them to go into the scrub and disperse the tribe.
Disperse? That is a strange word. What do you mean by dispersing?
Firing at them.'Two decades after a massacre of local Aboriginal people, the former residents of a Queensland town have reunited to celebrate the progress and prosperity of their community. Tom Dorahy, returning to his hometown, is having none of it: he wants those responsible to own up to their actions. A reckoning with oppression, guilt and the weight of the past, A Kindness Cup is one of Thea Astley’s greatest achievements.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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The Acolyte,
single work
novel
'It is told in the first person by “the acolyte,” Paul Vesper. The novel traces the career of a fictional Australian musician and composer named Jack Holberg. Beginning in obscurity as a piano player in Grogbusters, a dreary little Queensland town, the blind Holberg eventually gains international recognition as a composer. Vesper, who had met Holberg during his less renowned period, gives up an engineering career to serve the great man—in a sense, to become his eyes. ' (Publication summary)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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One Novel Then Two by Astley Help to Establish Her North American Reputation
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , Winter vol. 2 no. 2 1988; (p. 110)
— Review of Two by Astley : A Kindness Cup and The Acolyte 1988 selected work novel
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One Novel Then Two by Astley Help to Establish Her North American Reputation
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , Winter vol. 2 no. 2 1988; (p. 110)
— Review of Two by Astley : A Kindness Cup and The Acolyte 1988 selected work novel