Bush Studies
Text Classics
$13.99
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
26 September 2012
Summary
‘The terror Baynton evokes,’ Helen Garner writes, ‘is elemental, sexual, unabashedly female.’
Introduced by Helen Garner.
Barbara Baynton’s short-story collection Bush Studies is famous for its stark realism—for not romanticising bush life, instead showing all its bleakness and harshness. Economic of style, influenced by the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, Baynton presents the Australian bush as dangerous and isolating for the women who inhabit it.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922079497 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922079499 |
| Author: | Barbara Baynton |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | Text Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 26 September 2012 |
| Weight: | 112g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Text Classics |
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Critics Review
‘So precise, so complete, with such insight into detail and such force of statement, it ranks with the masterpieces of realism in any language.’
‘So precise, so complete, with such insight into detail and such force of statement, it ranks with the masterpieces of realism in any language.’ * Bulletin *
Barbara Baynton
Barbara Baynton
Barbara Baynton was born in Scone, New South Wales. In the 1890s, Baynton began writing short stories, poetry, and articles for The Bulletin. Her first tale, ‘The Tramp’, was published in 1896. After failing to find an Australian publisher for her collection of short stories, she visited London, and in 1902, Duckworth published Bush Studies. Human Toll, a novel, appeared in 1907. A successful businesswoman and renowned socialite, Baynton spent her later years in Melbourne, dying in 1929.
Helen Garner
Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays, and works of non-fiction. She is the winner of the Melbourne Prize for Literature, the Windham Campbell Prize for Non-Fiction, the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, and the Australian Society of Authors Medal. Her books include Monkey Grip, The Children’s Bach, The First Stone, Joe Cinque’s Consolation, The Spare Room, This House of Grief, The Season, How to End a Story: Collected Diaries (which won the prestigious Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction), and The Mushroom Tapes (with Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein).
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