Summary
Winner of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction,The Age Book of the Year Award for Non-fiction, The Dobbie Prize for Best First Book.Winner of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction,The Age Book of the Year Award for Non-fiction, The Dobbie Prize for Best First Book.A lyrical memoir from a first-time author that has won critical acclaim Australia-wide. In the tradition of Drusilla Modjeska’s Poppy, Mahood offers an intense and sensitive exploration of identity, familial ties and black/white relations in Australia.Craft For A Dry Lake is a memoir that will touch the hearts and souls of every Australian. In Craft For A Dry Lake Kim Mahood takes us on a lyrical journey to her heartland - travelling with her beloved cattle dog back into the Outback of her youth, seeking to lay to rest her father’s ghost but finding herself faced with many of her own.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781863591393 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1863591397 |
| Author: | Kim Mahood |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers (Division of Random House Australia) |
| Imprint: | Anchor |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 7 April 2000 |
| Weight: | 278g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 135mm x 209mm |
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Kim Mahood
Kim Mahood is an artist who divides her time between Canberra, where she teaches art , and Queensland, with extended periods spent in Kangaroo Valley and the Outback. She also teaches a course in sculpture at the Centre of Continuing Education at Sydney University.
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