The Drover's Wives
101 re-tellings of a classic short story
`In his supercalifragilisticexpialidocious new book Ryan O'Neill does something stunningly original using Henry Lawson's The
Drover's Wife - turning it into a bravura literary game. I have never read a work like this before. Les mer
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`In his supercalifragilisticexpialidocious new book Ryan O'Neill does something stunningly original using Henry Lawson's The
Drover's Wife - turning it into a bravura literary game. I have never read a work like this before. It is a perfect reference
book and teaching aid for teachers and students of English by illustrating the rich variety of ways we play with and use the
language. A cerebrally imaginative tour de force' - Frank Moorhouse, `Playful, inventive and often laugh-out-loud funny, The
Drover's Wives is a brilliant array of Oulipo-inspired exercises in style' - David Belbin
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Utgitt:
2019
Forlag: Eye Books
Innbinding: Paperback
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 288
ISBN: 9781785630910
Format: 20 x 13 cm
Short-listed for Russell Prize for Humour Writing 2019 and Queensland Literary Awards 2019.
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1. The Drover's Wife, 2. Hemingwayesque, 3. Tanka, 4. A Year 8 English Essay, 5. List of Ingredients, 6. A Cryptic Crossword,
7. A Child's Drawing, 8. An Agony Aunt Column, 9. Sporting Commentary, 10. A Disease, 11. Lipogram, 12. Freudian, 13. A Mixtape,
14. A 1950s Children's Book, 15. McCarthyesque, 16. Parable, 17. Editorial Comments, 18. A Children's Toy, 19. Elizabethan,
20. Lecture Slides, 21. A Gossip Column, 22. Glaswegian, 23. A Self-Published Novel Cover, 24. Cento, 25. A Pop Song, 26.
A Fine Wine, 27. A 1980s Computer Game, 28. Yoked Sentences, 29. A Dance, 30. A School Play, 31. Cosmo Quiz, 32. Political
Cartoon, 33. A Fable, 34. Emojis, 35. Backwards, 36. A Card Game, 37. Horoscope, 38. Cliches, 39. Tweets, 40. A Question Asked
by An Audience Member at a Writers' Festival, 41. Verbless, 42. An Amazon Book Review, 43. A Choose Your Own Adventure Book,
44. Limerick, 45. An Abstract Painting, 46. An Insurance Claim, 47. A Real Estate Advertisement, 48. Songs from a Broadway
Musical, 49. Pangram, 50. A Comic Strip, 51. Sensory, 52. Interrogative, 53. Stream of Consciousness, 54. Onomatopoeia, 55.
Chronological, 56. A Reality TV Show, 57. Epic, 58. Maths Problems, 59. An RSPCA Report, 60. A Letter to the Daily Telegraph,
61. A Movie Review, 62. Worldcloud, 63. Hangman, 64. Monosyllabic, 65. Meme, 66. A Golden Age Detective Novel, 67. Imagist,
68. Ocker, 69. A Self-Help Book, 70. A Spam Email, 71. Punctuation, 72. Conditional, 73. An Absurdist Play, 74. N + 7, 75.
Endorsements, 76. Scratch and Sniff, 77. TV Guide, 78. Spoonerisms, 79. Contemporary, 80. Lovecraftian, 81. Abecedarian, 82.
Imperative, 83. Internet Comments, 84. Fill in the Blanks, 85. Finnegans Wife, 86. Classifieds, 87. Bar Graph, 88. Trivia
Questions, 89. Academese, 90. Bush Ballad, 91. Biographical, 92. Univocalic, 93. Wordsearch, 94. A Crass American Sitcom,
95. Postmodern, 96. Bibliography, 97. Index, 98. A Note on the Type, 99. Paint Swatches, 100. A Sex Manual, 101. A Penthouse
Letter
Ryan O'Neill was born in Glasgow in 1975 and now lives in Australia. His short story collection The Weight of a Human Heart
was shortlisted for the 2012 Queensland Literary Awards. His debut novel Their Brilliant Careers won the Australian PM's Prize
for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award.