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A Dutiful Daughter

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Thomas Keneally

Introduction by Geordie Williamson

It is the duty of a good child to let his parents know the second they turn into animals.

Barbara Glover’s parents metamorphosed when she hit puberty, becoming bovine from the waist down. Fearful of her transformative powers, she tends diligently to them, keeping them like animals on the family’s remote farm and—along with her brother, Damian, who harbours incestuous longings for her—protecting their terrible secret from the world. First published in 1971, Thomas Keneally’s A Dutiful Daughter is strange and disturbing, and utterly unlike any other Australian novel.

Thomas Keneally
About the Author

Thomas Keneally was born in 1935 in country New South Wales. In 1958 he entered the seminary but left before being ordained. He published his first book, The Place at Whitton, in 1964. He won the Miles Franklin Literary Award for Bring Larks and Heroes (1967) and Three Cheers for the Paraclete (1968), and was shortlisted three times for the...

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Geordie Williamson
About the Introducer

Geordie Williamson is chief literary critic of the Australian newspaper, a position he has held since 2008, though his essays and reviews have been appearing in newspapers and magazines here and in the UK for over a decade.

In 2011, he won the Pascall Prize for criticism, Australia’s only major national prize awarded for critical writing. He...

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Extent:
208pp
Format:
Paperback
Text publication date:
2 April 2019
ISBN:
9781925773446
AU Price:
$14.95
NZ Price:
$17.99
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Praise for Thomas Keneally
andA Dutiful Daughter

‘Authentically marvellous.’

‘One of the most startling menages ever.’

‘A very strange tale of a very strange family.’

Other editions ofA Dutiful Daughter
  • A Dutiful Daughter
    ebook
    ISBN: 9781925774252
    2 April 2019
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  • Paperback
    ISBN: 9781925498592
    3 July 2017
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    ISBN: 9781925603972
    8 January 2019
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