Drylands

Introduction by Emily Maguire

This will be a book for the world’s last reader, she decided, chewing pen-end over an open exercise book.

In the dying town of Drylands, Janet Deakin sells papers to lonely locals. At night, in her flat above the newsagency, she attempts to write a novel for a world in which no one reads—‘full of people, she envisaged, glaring at a screen that glared glassily back.’ Drylands is the story of the townsfolk’s harsh, violent lives. Trenchant and brilliant, Thea Astley’s final novel is a dark portrait of outback Australia in decline.

‘It is impossible to put this book down. It seethes with energy and passion.’ Herald Sun

‘Wonderful.’ Australian

Introducere de Emily Maguire Aceasta va fi o carte pentru ultimul cititor din lume, a decis ea, mestecand un stilou peste un caiet de exercitii deschis. Noaptea, in apartamentul ei de deasupra agentiei de stiri, ea incearca sa scrie un roman pentru o lume in care nimeni nu citeste - „plin de oameni, se gandi ea, uitandu-se la un ecran care arunca o privire sticloasa inapoi”. Drylands este povestea vietilor dure si violente ale orasenilor.