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Joan Makes History Paperback – 2 September 2002

by Kate Grenville (Author)
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Joan is a wife and mother of no great distinction, but in the life of her imagination she is in the front line of events, effortlessly subverting the solemnity of momentous occasions and cheerfully altering the course of history.
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  1. Print length
    288 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    University of Queensland Press
  4. Publication date
    2 September 2002
  5. Dimensions
    13.97 x 2.54 x 17.78 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0702233307
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0702233302
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Book Description

Kate Grenville's wonderfully irreverent novel rewrites 200-odd years of Australia's past.

About the Author

Kate Grenville's first novel, Lilian's Story, won the Vogel/Australian Award and has been made into a film starring Ruth Cracknell and Barry Otto. Dark Places, a companion novel to Lilian's Story, was shortlisted for the 1995 Miles Franklin Award and won the Victorian Premier's Award for Fiction. Her other fiction includes Bearded Ladies (short stories) and Dreamhouse, (filmed as Traps), both available as UQP paperbacks. Kate Grenville has also written a bestselling manual for fiction writers, The Writing Book, and, with Sue Woolfe, Making Stories- How Ten Australian Novels Were Written. Kate Grenville lives in Sydney with her husband, son and daughter.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Queensland Press; 1st edition (2 September 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0702233307
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0702233302
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 2.54 x 17.78 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 42 ratings

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Kate Grenville

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Kate Grenville (kategrenville.com) was born in Sydney, Australia. She's published eight books of fiction, including the multiple prize-winners 'The Secret River', 'The Lieutenant', 'The Idea of Perfection', and 'Lilian's Story'. She's also published three books about the writing process that are classic texts for Creative Writing classes, and a memoir about the research and writing of 'The Secret River'.

Grenville writes about Australia, but her themes are universal: love, violence, and survival. Her characters are often inspired by real historical characters: her own nineteenth century convict ancestor, an early Australian settler; a bag-lady on the streets of 1950s Sydney who quotes Shakespeare for a living; a soldier in the Sydney of 1788 who shares an extraordinary friendship of tenderness and respect with a young Aboriginal girl.

Grenville's international prizes include the Orange Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and a shortlisting for the Man Booker Prize. Her books have been published all over the world and translated into many languages, and two have been made into feature films.

Learn more about Kate Grenville, her books, and how to get hold of them, at kategrenville.com.

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Lindy Lou
4.0 out of 5 stars Many Joans make history
Reviewed in the United States on 15 September 2015
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This work is a group of short stories, each set in separate times in Australia's past, each narrated from the point of view of a Joan at that time, and linked by episodes from a Joan who lives through most of the twentieth century. Each vignette is a little gem, and the ongoing Joan provides a window onto attitudes to and roles of women and their contribution to history - finally coming to an acceptance that it is not necessary to be a prime minister to make an impact on the world.
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Kenneth James Walker
4.0 out of 5 stars Most of us are not great men or women in the general sense and probably ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 August 2014
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One often wonders about the small contribution we make individually to our history. Most of us are not great men or women in the general sense and probably feel our contribution insignificant. Kate Grenville shows that by just being we are a part of the whole and an influence on our destiny. If you have lived in Australia for a goodly period and looked into and felt some of its birth pangs as a nation, read this book and the rest of what she has written. I would save this one till last to glean the most from it.
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While I was a little bit hesitant to pruchase this item due to the time it would take to get here I was greatly surprised. It arrive much earlier than estimated. Definality will use this again!
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