Franz Schrapfeneder Franz Schrapfeneder i(A78143 works by)
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9 89 y separately published work icon The Well Elizabeth Jolley , ( trans. Franz Schrapfeneder with title Der Mann im Brunnen ) Vienna : Zsolnay , 1990 Z385481 1986 single work novel (taught in 17 units)
— Appears in: Kokainovyj Bljuz [and] Kolodec 1991; ‘What have you brought me Hester? What have you brought me from the shop?’ / ‘I’ve brought Katherine, Father,’ Miss Harper said. ‘I’ve brought Katherine, but she’s for me.’

It had been a harsh, lonely life for spinster Hester Harper on the isolated farm in Western Australia, with only her elderly, ailing father for companionship. Then, “partly out of pity and aptly out of fancy,” she brought the young orphan girl to stay with them. Katherine was eager to work and to learn, and Hester’s emotionally impoverished life began to flower as the two cooked and sewed and ran the farm and made music for each other’s entertainment. It was all so beautiful–until the night they ran into a mysterious creature (or was it a human being?) on a rutted country road on the way home from a dance. Even after Hester deposited the evidence in the farm’s deep well, the injured voice at the bottom would not be stilled. Most disturbing of all, the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the recess, the farther away she gets from Hester.

A haunting, deeply resonant tale of obsessive attachment and sexual awakening, The Well demonstrates once again that Elizabeth Jolley is a writer of wit, high moral purpose, and great conviction. Reviewing her previous novel, Foxybaby, in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Carolyn See wrote: “This is prose, thought, and art of the highest elegance and caliber.” The same, and more, can be said of this compassionate, extremely moving, and beautifully articulated new work.

4 42 y separately published work icon Foxybaby Elizabeth Jolley , ( trans. Franz Schrapfeneder with title FoxyBaby : Roman ) Vienna : Zsolnay , 1989 Z385173 1985 single work novel (taught in 2 units) 'Alma Porch, novelist and aspiring dramatist, is hired to teach a course in Trinity College's "Better Body Through the Arts" summer program for overweight adults. On the rundown campus in the remote Australian outback, Alma is surrounded by starving matrons, orgies of sex and gluttony, and an eccentric group of staff and students who are eager to open themselves to the transforming possibilities of her screenplay, "Foxybaby." As the students develop their roles and film this story of a father trying to rescue his runaway daughter and her baby from discos and drugs, the play becomes a kind of therapy and begins to unite and console the lonely hearts of this unlikely group in surprising ways.In this wise and frequently uproarious book, Elizabeth Jolley is at her provocative best.' (Publisher's blurb)
12 7 y separately published work icon An Indecent Obsession Colleen McCullough , ( trans. Franz Schrapfeneder with title Ein anderes Wort fur Liebe : Roman ) Munich : Bertelsmann , 1982 Z95298 1981 single work novel

'The Second World War has just ended and Sister Honour Langtree, a caring and conscientious Army nurse, cares for a striking mixture of five battle-broken soldiers being treated in the psychiatric care section of the hospital. To the soldiers, Honour is a precious, adored reminder of the world before war – they are as devoted to her as she is to them.

'Then Seargent Michael Wilson arrives. A damaged and decorated hero, Wilson is a man of secrets and silent pain. Honour finds herself drawn to this tortured man, and discovers a love that will ultimately lead to a violent tragedy.'

Source : publisher's blurb
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