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My brilliant sister [Paperback]
Brown, Amy, 1984-2024
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Stella Miles Franklin's autobiographical novel My Brilliant Career launched one of the most famous names in Australian letters. Funny, bold, often biting about its characters, the novel and its young author had a lot in common. Miles went on to live a large, fiercely independent and bohemian life of travel, art and freedom. Not so her beloved sister Linda. Quiet, contained, conventional, Linda was an inversion of Stella. A family peacemaker who married the man Stella would not, bore a son and died of pneumonia at 25. In this reflective, witty and revealing novel, Amy Brown rescues Linda, setting her in counterpoint with Stella, and with the lives of two contemporary women: Ida, a writer whose writing life is on hold as she teaches and raises her young daughter; and Stella, a singer-songwriter who has sacrificed everything for a career, now forcibly put on hold. Binding the two is the novella that Linda might have written to her sister Stella - a brilliant alternative vision of My Brilliant Career. Innovative and involving, My Brilliant Sister is an utterly convincing (and hilarious) portrait of Miles Franklin and a moving, nuanced exploration of the balance women still have to strike between careers and family lives. It gives a fresh take on one of Australia's most celebrated writers and an insight into life now.
Main title:
My brilliant sister [Paperback] / Amy Brown.
Author:
Brown, Amy, 1984-, author
Imprint:
Cammeray, NSW : Scribner, 2024.©2024
Collation:
252 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
97817614243599781761424359
Dewey class:
NZ823.3A823.4
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
549875
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Fiction - General | BROW | Onloan - Due: 15 Jun 2024 |
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | BROW | Onloan - Due: 14 Jun 2024 |
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | BROW | Onloan - Due: 04 Jun 2024 |
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | BROW | In-transit from Brighton Library to Sandringham Library (Set: 20 May 2024) |
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | BROW | Onloan - Due: 27 May 2024 |
| Sandringham Library | Adult Fiction - General | BROW | Onloan - Due: 31 May 2024 |