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Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 Two by Astley : A Kindness Cup and The Acolyte
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* Contents derived from the New York (City), New York (State),
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G. P. Putnam's Sons , 1988 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
A Kindness Cup, Thea Astley , single work novel historical fiction

'I told them to go into the scrub and disperse the tribe.
Disperse? That is a strange word. What do you mean by dispersing?
Firing at them.

'Two decades after a massacre of local Aboriginal people, the former residents of a Queensland town have reunited to celebrate the progress and prosperity of their community. Tom Dorahy, returning to his hometown, is having none of it: he wants those responsible to own up to their actions. A reckoning with oppression, guilt and the weight of the past, A Kindness Cup is one of Thea Astley’s greatest achievements.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

(p. [8]-135)
The Acolyte, Thea Astley , single work novel

'It is told in the first person by “the acolyte,” Paul Vesper. The novel traces the career of a fictional Australian musician and composer named Jack Holberg. Beginning in obscurity as a piano player in Grogbusters, a dreary little Queensland town, the blind Holberg eventually gains international recognition as a composer. Vesper, who had met Holberg during his less renowned period, gives up an engineering career to serve the great man—in a sense, to become his eyes. '  (Publication summary)

(p. [137]-287)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

One Novel Then Two by Astley Help to Establish Her North American Reputation Robert L. Ross , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , Winter vol. 2 no. 2 1988; (p. 110)

— Review of Two by Astley : A Kindness Cup and The Acolyte Thea Astley , 1988 selected work novel
One Novel Then Two by Astley Help to Establish Her North American Reputation Robert L. Ross , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , Winter vol. 2 no. 2 1988; (p. 110)

— Review of Two by Astley : A Kindness Cup and The Acolyte Thea Astley , 1988 selected work novel
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