4 Novels by Thea Astley
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Overview: Born in Brisbane, Thea Astley studied arts at the University of Queensland. Girl with a Monkey was her first novel published in 1958. Since then she has published nine novels, three of which won the distinguished Miles Franklin Award: The Well Dressed Explorer (1962), The Slow Natives (1965) and The Acolyte (1972). In 1975 her novel A Kindness Cup won the Australian Book of the Year Award presented by the Melbourne Age. Hunting the Wild Pineapple, her first collection of short stories, won the James Cook Foundation of Australian Literature Studies Award in 1980.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
The Acolyte | It is told in the first person by “the acolyte,” Paul Vesper. The novel traces the career of a fictional Australian musician and composer named Jack Holberg. Beginning in obscurity as a piano player in Grogbusters, a dreary little Queensland town, the blind Holberg eventually gains international recognition as a composer. Vesper, who had met Holberg during his less renowned period, gives up an engineering career to serve the great man—in a sense, to become his eyes.
The Well Dressed Explorer | Pompous, vain and a self-professed charmer, George Brewster moves from one unfulfilling journalism job to the next, one empty relationship to another, his faithful wife and daughter ever the afterthought. The Well Dressed Explorer is the story of a man of his time, but as a story of toxic workplaces and an Australia where comfort and self-interest breed men like George, it might well feel familiar to a new generation of readers.
The Slow Natives | The winner of Australia’s prize for lifetime achievement in literature chronicles one family’s unraveling and their tentative rapprochement forged through tragedy. "Sheer pleasure," is how Newsday described Thea Astley’s most recent book, Vanishing Points. Now, with The Slow Natives, Astley’s wit, sense of irony, and ability to delineate human foibles link her to such great observers of the human comedy as Graham Greene and Iris Murdoch. The Slow Natives takes place on that familiar battleground where middle age and adolescence confront each other, in a climate of hostile bewilderment, contempt, and reluctant love. At its center are music teacher Bernard Leverson, bored with his job and his marriage; his wife, Iris, who is engaged listlessly in an affair; and their rebellious teenage son, Keith. Their path leads inevitably to tragedy, but also presses the Leversons toward a reappreciation of their lives and one another. Here is a novel that confirms Thea Astley as one of the best writers of our time.
A Kindness Cup | The story of Taws, an Australian town about to celebrate its 20th anniversary. But one man is not about to celebrate. Returning from 15 years exile, he is intent on reminding the town of the brutal acts they perpetrated during their early years of settlement.
In nineteenth-century Queensland, Lieutenant Freddie Buckmaster takes a band of men to ‘disperse the natives’ from Mandarana, an outback town. Violence is the inevitable result. Terrified, a young mother, Kowaha, leaps from a cliff, holding her baby.
Two decades after the massacre, Tom Dorahy returns to his hometown for a reunion, bringing with him memories of its dark past and an attempt to reclaim justice for the victims of that night.
A Kindness Cup addresses the efforts made to forget and to remember by both white and indigenous Australians, so that they may negotiate a future together.
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