Drylands (novel) explained

Drylands
Author:	Thea Astley
Country:	Australia
Language:	English
Publisher:	Penguin Books, Australia
Release Date:	1999
Media Type:	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages:	293
Isbn:	0-670-88619-X
Dewey:	823/.914 21
Congress:	PR9619.3.A75 D79 1999
Oclc:	42402469
Preceded By:	The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow
Followed By:	-

Drylands (1999)^[1] (subtitled "A Book for the World's Last Reader") is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Thea Astley. This novel shared the award with Benang by Kim Scott.

Awards

- Kerryn Goldsworthy: "Drylands is Astley's Waste Land, with a cast of exhausted and alienated characters wandering through it in the death-grip of entropy, pursued by fin-de-siècle furies and other personifications of failure and defeat. In the small town of Drylands there are no fragments shored against anybody's ruin (well, there are, but even the fragments get vandalized and tossed), and there is certainly none of the peace that passeth understanding."^[3]

For a description of "drylands" see biomes.

Web site: Austlit - Drylands by Thea Astley . Austlit. 12 July 2023.
Web site: Austlit - Drylands - Awards . Austlit. 12 July 2023.
Web site: Drylands by Thea Astley . Kerryn . Goldsworthy . Australian Book Review . September 1999 . April 25, 2022.