The Slow Natives

The Slow Natives

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name = The Slow Natives
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author = Thea Astley
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country = Australia
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Angus and Robertson, Australia
release_date = 1965
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media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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"The Slow Natives" (1965) is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Thea Astley, the first of her record number of four wins. It also won the 1965 Moomba Award.

Plot summary

Set in sub-tropical Queensland, the novel examines the relationships between suburban Brisbanites including a priest, nuns and a couple and their teenage son.

tyle and themes

The novel represents a departure for Astley from her earlier novels in that rather than focusing on one or two particular characters, she moves "freely among a group, switching attention omnisciently from one to another. Almost all the characters suffer from some form of spiritual aridity; in Astley's vision, there often seems nothing between repression, and empty or even corrupt sexuality". [ [http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4113/Astley-Thea.html Clancy, Laurie "Thea Astley Biography: Thea Astley comments"] ]

Astley's characters in this novel often only realise their failings after disaster has beset them. The father, for example, only realises after his teenage son has lost his leg in a "joy-riding accident", that he has "failed to give his son 'the sort of discipline ... [he] wanted more than anything in the world'." [Taylor and Perkins (2007), p. 246]

Notes

References

* [http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4113/Astley-Thea.html Clancy, Laurie "Thea Astley Biography: Thea Astley comments"]
* [http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/astleyt/slownats.html Middlemiss.org]
*Taylor, Cheryl and Perkins, Elizabeth (2007) "Warm words: North Queensland writing" in Patrick Buckridge and Elizabeth McKay (ed.) "By the Book: A Literary History of Queensland", St Lucia, University of Queensland Press


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