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This endearing nineteenth-century family saga follows the lives, loves and losses of one pioneering family and two escaped convicts as they open up the land in Gippsland, Victoria. The Pioneers won the Hodder and Stoughton All Empire Literature Prize for Australasia in 1915, giving its author one thousand pounds and the opportunity to launch her career as a creative writer. The Pioneers has been filmed twice: in 1916 and in 1926. This classic Australian story not only commands a place in the cannon of Australian literature but it is also an important part of Australia's national cultural heritage for its fascinating record and reflection of early Australian life and perspectives. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Katharine Susannah Prichard was born in 1883 and died 1969, and she wrote 13 novels. In the Preface to The Pioneers, KSP tells us that:
The book's blurb tells us that The Pioneers went on to win the Australian section of the £1000 Dominion Competition for fiction in 1915. More properly known as the Hodder and Stoughton All Empire Literature Prize for Australasia, (see here) this prize launched KSP's career as a creative writer.
This is the blurb:
These days, marketers might promote The Pioneers as Rural Romance, which you might guess anyway from that excruciatingly bad cover art by D.L. Allnutt. Poor Deirdre looks as if her arm is dislocated, like a doll with its arm screwed on back-to-front. Davey Cameron's awkward grimace, and her pert expression hints at Difficulties in the Relationship, but the body language suggests that eventually all will be well. Also, there are 'secrets', a trope so clichéd in contemporary commercial 'women's' fiction that the mere mention of the word in a blurb is enough for me to decide that the book is not for me.
However, KSP being KSP, there's a bit more to this novel than a rocky relationship and a secret withheld to the end of the story.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2019/01/09/the-pioneers-by-katharine-susannah-prichard/ ( )