2 books by Kylie Tennant
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Overview: Kylie Tennant was born in Sydney in 1912. Her first novel, Tiburon, won the S.H. Prior Memorial Prize for 1935. She went on to write numerous novels and plays for both adults and children, and won many more awards. Experience and involvement enliven all her writing. Ride on Stranger, first published in 1943, became a popular television series in 1979. Aside from writing, she lectured for the Commonwealth Literary Fund and was a member of its Advisory Board from 1961 to 1973. She married Lewis C. Rodd, author and teacher, in 1932 and had a daughter and a son. In 1980 she was appointed AO. Suffering from cancer, Kylie Tennant made an impassioned plea for the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia. Shortly afterwards, on 28 February 1988, she died in Sydney.
Genre: General Fiction, Literature
The Battlers
The award-winning tale of the motley crowd of travelling ‘battlers’. The flowers flared up from the ground unconquerable. The unrepentant gaiety of the weed, the burning blues and crimsons, set the hills glowing. ‘It’s a plant that’s struck it lucky,’ the Stray said thoughtfully. ‘It hasn’t got no right, but it’s there.’ The Battlers is the story of Snow, a drifter and wanderer, the waiflike Dancy the Stray, from the slums of Sydney, and the other outcasts who accompany them as they travel the country roads looking for work. Like the weed Patterson’s Curse, they ‘haven’t got no right’, but they are there. Based on her own experiences of life on the roads in the 1930s, Tennant tells the story of the motley crowd of travellers with compassion and humour. First published in 1941, The Battlers was awarded the Gold Medal of the Australian Literature Society and shared the S. H. Prior Memorial Prize. More than seventy years later, the book’s message of survival against the odds is as relevant today as it was then.
The Man on the Headland
The Man on the Headland is the story of Kylie, her schoolmaster husband, Roddy, and her two children, both born during her time in Laurieton.
While Kylie Tennant was living in the little fishing town of Laurieton on the north coast of New South Wales, she made two memorable discoveries – Ernie Metcalfe and Diamond Head. The two belonged together. Called by some ‘the mad hermit of Diamond Head’, Ernie was splendidly sane, if unlike anybody else.
Kylie Tennant has painted his portrait vividly and with love, and with it the portrait of Diamond Head – a place to which Ernie was so closely bound in spirit that in the end they seemed to be one. She evokes its fascination and its subtle menace, its rocks and beaches, its wildflowers and wild creatures, the light on sea and land, so that the reader, too, falls under its spell and shares her grief and anger at its later devastation by mining.
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