Judy Nunn
Auteur de 10 Short Stories You Must Read in 2010
A propos de l'auteur
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Séries
Œuvres de Judy Nunn
Wie Pech und Schwefel 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Bernhard-Waite, Judy (pen name)
- Date de naissance
- 1945-04-13
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Australia
- Lieu de naissance
- Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Lieux de résidence
- Bondi, New South Wales, Australia
London, England, UK
Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia - Professions
- actor
Screenwriter - Relations
- Venables, Bruce (husband)
- Prix et distinctions
- Order of Australia (Member, 2015)
- Agent
- James Laurie
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Critiques
A great story set during the building of the Snowy Mountain Scheme in the 1940s to 60s. With a backdrop of the trauma experienced by some of the migrants arriving and living in the communities building the tunnels and dams; with a Nazi living among them hiding his past atrcities until exposed.
These stories are very different, mostly almost novellas, a couple of them could be classified as crime fiction, their plots a little macabre. At the end of each story the author describes what led her to write the story. In some cases, a scenario that has stuck in the author's mind for a long time.
I wasn't sure about a book of short stories but I really enjoyed these. There were 6 distinctly different stories with good character development. I enjoyed the fact that the author explained, at the end of each tale, how the story came to be.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 25
- Membres
- 957
- Popularité
- #26,917
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 43
- ISBN
- 250
- Langues
- 3
- Favoris
- 1
The earlier timeline involves “Big Jim” Durham and his beautiful French wife Elianne Desmarais who was practically sold to him by her drunkard father to pay off his debts. Big Jim named his huge plantation Elianne after his adored wife with its wide landscapes and Kanakas (Pacific Island workers) who came to Australia to work the plantations as they were better able to withstand the heat than their Aussie counterparts.
The second timeline begins in 1964 and revolves around Stan Durham, Big Jim’s grandson and his family. This storyline takes in the Vietnam War which son Jim goes off to fight, the campaign for the Referendum to change the constitution to include Aboriginal people as part of the population, the White Australia policy and the feelings of Australians towards immigrants.
Kate discovers Grandmother Ellie’s diaries which shake the foundations of the story the family has built about themselves and brings about big changes.
I enjoyed this story although some of the characters such as Stan and Big Jim were somewhat overblown and one dimensional. The audio narration was also good.… (plus d'informations)