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Karen Lamb | 376 pages | 30 Apr 2015 | University of Press | 9780702253560 | English | St Lucia, Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather — The Wheeler Centre

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are respectfully cautioned that this website contains images of people who have passed away. Over a fifty-year writing career, Astley published more than a dozen novels and short story collections, including The AcolyteThe Slow Natives and, finally, in She was the first person to win multiple Miles Franklin awards — four in total. With many of her works published internationally, Astley was a trailblazer for women writers. In her personal life, she was renowned for her dry wit, eccentricity and compassion. Although a loving mother and wife, she Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather above the domestic limitations imposed Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather women at the time to carve out a professional life true to her creative drive. Karen Lamb has drawn on an unparalleled range of interviews and correspondence to create a detailed picture of Thea the woman, as well as Astley the writer. She paints this portrait with exactly the right balance of candour, critical engagement and evident affection for her subject that you would expect in a biography. It is an important resource for students of and an insight into the life of an author whose own existence was such a profound influence and source of inspiration for her writing. Buy from Amazon. Buy from Kobo. Buy from Apple Books. Buy from Google Play. Karen Lamb teaches literature and communication at the Australian Catholic University and has held teaching and research positions at The , Monash University and the University of Melbourne, where she taught in literary studies, media and communication, and cultural studies. Her research interests include Australian literature, life writing, and the cultural context of authorship. She has edited a book of Australian short stories, and published book chapters and articles on Australian authors, including a book on . She lives in . Australian writer Thea Astley — published seventeen novels and more than a dozen free-standing short stories. She studied arts at The University of Queensland and held a position as Fellow in Australian Literature at until Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather, when she retired to write Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather. In she was granted an honorary doctorate of letters from The University of Queensland. Astley lived and wrote on the south coast until her death in In she won the Award. Download book cover Read extract. Share Award winner. Dispatched business days. Add to cart. Overview Details Awards Reviews ebook. The Hoopla. Inside Story. More by Karen Lamb, Thea Astley. Related titles. Ian Frazer: The man who saved a million lives Madonna King. Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather | UQP

With public gathering restricted during the Covid pandemic, we're keeping you connected with good conversation and meaningful ideas at home. Click here to find out more. View our privacy policy here. This is the first book-length biography of Thea Astley, one of our most critically acclaimed writers. She was the first woman to win multiple Miles Franklin Awards — four in total. With many of her works published internationally, Astley was a trailblazer for women writers. Karen Lamb has drawn on an unparalleled range of interviews and correspondence to create a detailed picture of Thea the woman, as well as Astley the writer. Karen Lamb teaches literature and communication at the Australian Catholic University and has held teaching and research positions at the University of Queensland, Monash University and the University of Melbourne, where she taught in literary studies, media and communication, and cultural studies. Her research interests include Australian literature, life writing, and the cultural context of authorship. She has edited a book of Australian short stories, and published book chapters and articles on Australian authors, including a book on Peter Carey. She lives in Sydney. Though her novels have fallen out of fashion in recent times, Thea Astley — winner of four Miles Franklin awards — is an important figure in Australian literature and this biography makes a wonderful start at acknowledging and perpetuating that talent. The prose in Thea Astley: Inventing her own weather speaks to the spirited, idiosyncratic nature of Astley, as well as a sense of sadness that she Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather not see herself as a success and often found something to complain about, even when Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather going was good. Karen Lamb provides insights to the inner workings of Astley that will captivate not just fans of Astley but also those who might not yet be familiar with her work. There was never a time when multi-award-winning Australian novelist Thea Astley was not a writer. Her first novel, Girl with a Monkeypublished indazzled with insight and wit. Further novels appeared almost every two years throughout the s. By the end of the next decade she had picked up a further two Miles Franklin Awards for and and a healthy Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather of other major literary prizes. Yet Astley spent her life suffering from an acute sense of being a writer who was out of favour, a sentiment that Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather curiously alongside her visible success. When she received the Patrick White Award in — intended for writers who might not have received the recognition Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather deserved — Astley regarded it as confirmation of her failure. While eccentric, this attitude can be understood. It is astonishing to think that even by the mids Astley was already as much of a household name as any Australian writer can be, that is, in Australia. The relentless commerce of publishing, the thirst for the new, dictates much of that answer. Thea Astley was being published — and reviewed — in the United States, as well as in Australia. Drylandspublished in when she was in her seventies, won her a fourth a feat shared only by . She has influenced a generation of Australian women writers such as Helen Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather and and is known for her support of the many younger writers who came within her orbit as a teacher. Their will is seemingly suspended, their memory animated by usually hostile past events, while they await the decline of the ripened body. In her work as in her life, Thea Astley was a fatalist. In public she could display a strange mixture of bombast and anxiety, be sentimental — reduced to tears by a recalled scene — yet blunt in her opinions, often mumbling a shambolic apology. Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather to the Wheeler Weekly for the latest on our upcoming events, broadcasts and notes from our website, and previews of events and presenters from our programme. View our privacy policy. Skip to content. Account Update account information Update email preferences View cart. Up next View all 12 of our upcoming events. Young Adult. "Thea Astley: Inventing her own weather" by Karen Lamb

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To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Thea Astleyplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Jan 30, Alison rated it really liked it. I really enjoyed reading this biog of Thea Astley. I studied lit in north qld so she was a popular novelist on courses and in bookshops. I strongly identified with her version of north qld. What a complex mix of brazen abrasiveness and vulnerability she turns out to be. A lovely entwining of her life and life's work which is non determinist but beautifully reflective of both. Dec 06, Jess rated it it was amazing Shelves: biographyreading-womenaustralia. A wonderful Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather which does full justice to the richness and complexity of a talented, contradictory, and complicated woman. May 19, Lisa rated it really liked it Shelves: c21stbiographyaustralialiterary-biography. But Karen Lamb makes a very convincing case that this seemingly perverse behaviour stemmed from a deep insecurity and from an acute awareness that male writers were supported differently both in terms of sales-generating publicity and with promotion of their books into international markets. Especially in the early years of Astley's writing career… Thea Astley grew up in a staunchly Catholic household, witnessing the unhappy marriage of her journalist father Cecil and his wife Eileen. Dec 14, Anne Fenn rated it it was amazing Shelves: biography. A very interesting and informative read about Thea Astley. She was such a character, bitter about lack of recognition for years, but was pretty famous, read in schools, published around the world, a great prize winner, had all 8 books in print, what more did she want? I like her work a lot. This biography does an excellent job explaining her influences - dominating conservative mother, beloved father, long lasting Catholic imprinting of beliefs. Could feel alienated but also great company, with A very interesting and informative read about Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather Astley. Could feel alienated but also great company, with many male and female friends. She was funny, blunt, dangerously flippant at times. Her younger self was more agreeable and tolerant. As an older person, an academic, she seems to have had no qualms about humiliating students at times exercising her power. Her Queensland settings make good sense, she worked in small towns there, had great affection for the people and place. She was one of those annoyingly contrarian women who say 'I'm not a feminist', while working with and supporting women writers. Karen Lamb is a dedicated follower of Thea Astley's career. She worked for years, researching, interviewing, analysing and reading to produce a biography that covers her subject in a fair and detailed manner. She gives Astley a context and brings her to life as a rounded individual. I've learned a lot from this book. View 1 comment. Jul 27, Sybil Nolan rated it it was amazing. Well worth the wait! I loved Karen Lamb's evocation of in Thea Astley's youth, which chimed so well with the atmosphere I remember from my Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather family. Also her subtle study of Astley's combination of robust personality and defensive frame of mind. Dec 19, Susie Anderson rated it it was amazing. Apr 07, Malcolm Frawley rated it really liked it Shelves: owned. Thea Astley has been my favourite Australian author since I first read her short story collection, Hunting The Wild Pineapple, in I am even the proud owner of a personally-inscribed copy of . Highly recommended. 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