The Catherine Wheel
The Text Classics
$14.75
- Paperback
340 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2014
Summary
The wind from Siberia, as announced by the BBC, came down Bayswater Road from the direction of Marble Arch… Searing skin, and petrifying metal and wood, it took possession of London and this early day of the new year. Gently, somehow sympathetically, with a secret sort of throb, my ears ached against it, but rather more drearily and with a sense of injustice my eyes watered as I narrowed them at the steely dark sky and swirling smoke. The centre of the universe! The brilliance of the winter s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922147950 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1922147958 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Harrower |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 340 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2014 |
| Weight: | 264g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 355mm x 192mm |
| Series: | Text Classics |
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Critics Review
‘I love The Watch Tower, but I love The Catherine Wheel more. Like all the Harrower books, with their psychological mysteries, their droll humour, their brilliant language and ear for voices, The Catherine Wheel takes your hand from the first page and beckons you in.’ * Ramona Koval *
‘A brilliant achievement.’ * Washington Post on The Watch Tower *
‘First published in 1966, this book has traces of Patrick White mixed with the darkness of the brothers Grimm. It is a great novel due a rediscovery in the way that Stoner was championed by John McGahern.’ * Irish Times on The Watch Tower *
’ A remarkable achievement.’ * Australian Book Review on Down in the City *
‘Rich and rewarding.’ * Starred review, Kirkus *
‘The Catherine Wheel is a great starting point for those new to Harrower’s work, those readers who are unafraid to face the darker aspects of desire we’re sometimes too ashamed to acknowledge.’ * 3am Magazine, Top Reads for 2015 *
About The Author
Elizabeth Harrower
Elizabeth Harrower was born in Sydney in 1928 and moved to London in 1951. She travelled extensively and began to write fiction. Her first novel Down in the City was published in 1957, and was followed by The Long Prospect a year later. In 1959 she returned to Sydney where she began working for the ABC and as a book reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald. In 1960 she published The Catherine Wheel, the story of an Australian law student in London, her only novel not set in Sydney.
The Watch Tower appeared in 1966. No further novels were published until May 2014 when Harrower’s ‘lost’ novel, In Certain Circles, was released. Her work is austere, intelligent, ruthless in its perceptions about men and women. She was admired by many of her contemporaries, including Patrick White and Christina Stead, and is without doubt among the most important writers of the postwar period in Australia.
Elizabeth Harrower died in Sydney on 7 July 2020 at the age of ninety-two.
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