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Inheritance Paperback – 15 August 2003
by
Hannie Rayson
(Author)
In the Mallee country, a family gathers to celebrate the 80th birthdays of twin sisters Dibs and Girlie. But these have been heartbreak years in the bush and the cracks are beginning to show. All have a claim to the land, but which claim will prevail and who will lose out? A powerful family saga dealing with divisions between the city and the bush, black and white, and duty and freedom.
- Print length128 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherCurrency Press
- Publication date15 August 2003
- Dimensions13.5 x 0.7 x 21 cm
- ISBN-100868197203
- ISBN-13978-0868197203
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About the Author
HANNIE RAYSON has established a reputation for topical, complex dramas written with wit and humour. A graduate of Melbourne University and the Victorian College of the Arts, she has an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from La Trobe University and is a Fellow of the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne. Her plays have been extensively performed around Australia and internationally. They include Please Return to Sender, Mary, Leave It Till Monday, Room to Move, Hotel Sorrento, Falling From Grace, Competitive Tenderness, Life After George, Inheritance and Two Brothers. She has been awarded two Australian Writers' Guild Awards, four Helpmann Awards, two NSW Premier's Literary Awards and a Victorian Premier's Literary Award as well as the Age Performing Arts Award. She also wrote Scenes from a Separation with Andrew Bovell. For television she has written 'Sloth' (ABC, Seven Deadly Sins) and co-written two episodes of SeaChange (ABC/Artists Services). A feature film of Hotel Sorrento, produced in 1995, was nominated for ten Australian Film Institute Awards. In 1999 she received the Magazine Publishers' Society of Australia's Columnist of the Year Award for her regular contributions to HQ magazine. Rayson made playwriting history when Life After George was the first play to be nominated for the Miles Franklin Award. In 2006 she was nominated for the Melbourne Prize for Literature, a prize for a Victoria-based writer whose body of published or produced work has made an outstanding contribution to Australian literature and to cultural and intellectual life.
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- Publisher : Currency Press (15 August 2003)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 128 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0868197203
- ISBN-13 : 978-0868197203
- Dimensions : 13.5 x 0.7 x 21 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 641,943 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 166 in Australian & Oceania Dramas & Plays
- 280 in Dramas & Plays by Women
- 2,709 in Theatre (Books)
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