Publisher's synopsis
Henry Lawson’s short story ‘The Drover’s Wife’ is an Australian classic that has sparked interpretations on the page, on canvas, and on the stage. But it has never been so thoroughly or hilariously reimagined as by Ryan O’Neill, remixing and revising Lawson’s masterpiece in 99 different ways.
You’ll be amused, delighted, and surprised by a Year 8 essay, a sporting commentary, a pop song, a Hollywood movie adaptation, and many more.
Inventive and unexpected, this is laugh-out-loud literature from one of Australia’s finest satirists.
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Ryan O’Neill was born in Glasgow in 1975 and lived in Africa, Europe and Asia before settling in Newcastle with his wife and two daughters. His fiction has appeared in Seizure, The Best Australian Stories, The Sleepers Almanac, Meanjin and Westerly. His work has won the Hal Porter and Roland Robinson awards and been shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Steele Rudd Award and the Age Short-Story Prize. He is the author of The Weight of a Human Heart, Their Brilliant Careers, which won the 2017 Prime Minister’s Literary Award, and The Drover’s Wives. He teaches at the University of Newcastle.
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