Drylands (novel)

Drylands (1999) (subtitled "A Book for the World's Last Reader") is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Thea Astley. This novel shared the award with Benang by Kim Scott.

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"Australian Book Review" [1]
Kerryn Goldsworthy: "Drylands is Astley's Waste Land, with a cast of exhausted and alienated characters wandering through it in the death-grip of entropy, pursued by fin-de-siècle furies and other personifications of failure and defeat. In the small town of Drylands there are no fragments shored against anybody's ruin (well, there are, but even the fragments get vandalized and tossed), and there is certainly none of the peace that passeth understanding."^[1]

For a description of "drylands" see biomes.

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Eucalyptus	Miles Franklin Award recipient 2000 with Benang	Succeeded by Dark Palace

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