Kylie Tennant (1912–1988)
Auteur de The Battlers
A propos de l'auteur
Notice de désambiguation :
(eng) born Kathleen Tennant, married name Rodd.
Œuvres de Kylie Tennant
Long John Silver : the story of the film adapted by Kylie Tennant from the motion picture screenplay by Martin Rackin (1954) 2 exemplaires
The bushrangers' Christmas eve and other plays 1 exemplaire
Vulkanøen 1 exemplaire
Summer's tales 2 1 exemplaire
Tether a dragon 1 exemplaire
Trail Blazers of the Air 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Goodbye to Romance: Stories by New Zealand and Australian Women Writers, 1930-1988 (1989) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
Readers Digest Condensed Books 1974 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Tennant, Kathleen Kylie
- Date de naissance
- 1912-03-12
- Date de décès
- 1988-02-28
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Australia
- Lieu de naissance
- Manly, New South Wales, Australia
- Lieu du décès
- Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia
- Lieux de résidence
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Études
- Brighton College
University of Sydney - Professions
- novelist
playwright
memoirist
biographer
children's book author - Prix et distinctions
- Order of Australia (Officer, 1980)
- Notice de désambigüisation
- born Kathleen Tennant, married name Rodd.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 24
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 327
- Popularité
- #72,482
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 68
- Langues
- 2
All of which is to say that The Battlers, while not a perfect novel, is compelling Australian fiction that must have been truly powerful in its day. Contrasting the lives of down-on-their-luck, itinerant Australian folk, Tennant weaves a tale of mateship, possible romance, hope, and humility. I remember this from a considerably romanticised adaptation by the ABC in the '90s with Gary Sweet and Jacqueline McKenzie. The book is rougher - aside from a few specks of mud on occasion, neither Gary nor Jacqueline ever look worn down by the road!
On literary merit, I'd give this 3 stars. But the weight of history, and its oft-neglected place in the canon, bump this up to a 4 for me.… (plus d'informations)