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The Word Burners
Beryl Fletcher
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Description for The Word Burners
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 318.
How do you decide to live? Or do others make that decision for you? In this lyrical novel, Beryl Fletcher explores the paradoxes of modern life. As a new academic, Julia finds her beliefs challenged by her students, reinforced by her friend’s mistreatment and dismissed by her family. Just as her mother sought freedom from her family’s rural poverty, Julia and her sister Isobel, search for their own solace finding it in different and disparate places.
How do you decide to live? Or do others make that decision for you? In this lyrical novel, Beryl Fletcher explores the paradoxes of modern life. As a new academic, Julia finds her beliefs challenged by her students, reinforced by her friend’s mistreatment and dismissed by her family. Just as her mother sought freedom from her family’s rural poverty, Julia and her sister Isobel, search for their own solace finding it in different and disparate places.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Spinifex Press Australia
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
, Australia
ISBN
9781876756239
SKU
V9781876756239
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About Beryl Fletcher
Beryl Fletcher
Reviews for The Word Burners
"Lots of melodrama, sexy scenes, drunken quarrels, deaths, and so on
and it has got all the hooks that make for a good read and make you desperate to know how it's going to end."
Aorewa McLeod, "NZ Listener"
and it has got all the hooks that make for a good read and make you desperate to know how it's going to end."
Aorewa McLeod, "NZ Listener"