Kylie Tennant (1912–1988)
Autore di The Battlers
Sull'Autore
Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) born Kathleen Tennant, married name Rodd.
Opere di Kylie Tennant
Long John Silver : the story of the film adapted by Kylie Tennant from the motion picture screenplay by Martin Rackin (1954) 2 copie
Vulkanøen 1 copia
Summer's tales 2 1 copia
Tether a dragon 1 copia
Trail Blazers of the Air 1 copia
Opere correlate
Goodbye to Romance: Stories by New Zealand and Australian Women Writers, 1930-1988 (1989) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Tennant, Kathleen Kylie
- Data di nascita
- 1912-03-12
- Data di morte
- 1988-02-28
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Australia
- Luogo di nascita
- Manly, New South Wales, Australia
- Luogo di morte
- Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia
- Luogo di residenza
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Istruzione
- Brighton College
University of Sydney - Attività lavorative
- novelist
playwright
memoirist
biographer
children's book author - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Order of Australia (Officer, 1980)
- Nota di disambiguazione
- born Kathleen Tennant, married name Rodd.
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 24
- Opere correlate
- 5
- Utenti
- 327
- Popolarità
- #72,482
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 68
- Lingue
- 2
All of which is to say that The Battlers, while not a perfect novel, is compelling Australian fiction that must have been truly powerful in its day. Contrasting the lives of down-on-their-luck, itinerant Australian folk, Tennant weaves a tale of mateship, possible romance, hope, and humility. I remember this from a considerably romanticised adaptation by the ABC in the '90s with Gary Sweet and Jacqueline McKenzie. The book is rougher - aside from a few specks of mud on occasion, neither Gary nor Jacqueline ever look worn down by the road!
On literary merit, I'd give this 3 stars. But the weight of history, and its oft-neglected place in the canon, bump this up to a 4 for me.… (altro)