The Drover’s Wife: A Celebration of a Great Australian Love Affair by Frank Moorhouse

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex library copy with all external stickers removed. Minor wear to book corners and edges.Date due slip on inside page. Light creasing to top and tail dust jacket edges.

Since Henry Lawson wrote his story The Drover's Wife in 1892, Australian writers, painters, performers and photographers have created a wonderful tradition of drover's wife works, stories and images. The Russell Drysdale painting from 1945 extended the mythology and it, too, has become an Australian icon. Other versions of the Lawson story have been written by Murray Bail, Barbara Jefferis, Mandy Sayer, David Ireland, Madeleine Watts and others, up to the present, including Leah Purcell's play and Ryan O'Neill's graphic novel.

In essays and commentary, Frank Moorhouse examines our ongoing fascination with this story and has collected some of the best pieces of writing on the subject. This remarkable, gorgeous book is, he writes, 'a monument to the drovers' wives. (book flap)'.