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A Woman of the Future: Text Classics
Published 21 November 2012
ISBN 9781922079824
Format Paperback
Extent 480pp
AU Price $14.95
NZ Price $17.99

A Woman of the Future: Text Classics

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21 Nov 2012
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21 Nov 2012
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Introduced by Favel Parrett
'Mother's stomach bellied out like a sail. Young, she was unable to say no to anyone who asked her to make love. Her reasons for her behaviour were all her own; never, after she'd had me did she allow another man to enter her; my birth was her real marriage. And when I was six, she shut herself away entirely.'
A Woman of the Future, first published in 1979, was David Ireland's best-selling sixth novel and his third to win the Miles Franklin Award.
An imaginative tour de force, it is the story of the young life of Anthea Hunt—from conception to sexual awakening. It is controversial and brilliant, and unlike anything else in Australian literature.
Now published as a Text Classic, it features a new introduction from Kate Jennings.
 'Immense originality, wit and gritty wisdom…David Ireland has reached the top.' Patrick White
'Superlative powers of observation…a very rewarding read.' Manning Clark
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Published 21 November 2012
ISBN 9781922079824
Format Paperback
Extent 480pp
AU Price $14.95
NZ Price $17.99

About the author

David Ireland

David Ireland was once a boy weakened by lethal asthma attacks. He was rendered dumb by a negligent doctor, was bullied at school and was made an example of by teachers who predicted he would never achieve anything. Those teachers could not have been more wrong, because now David's Wildlife Man films are seen by millions of people around the world and his dream to highlight the plight of wild animals fighting to survive in the modern world is now a reality. His Crocodile Man doco was a global success in the early 1990s.
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Praise for A Woman of the Future: Text Classics

'A Woman of the Future is not just a novel, it is a phenomenom' Douglas Stewart

PRH, PRH

'Remarkable...an extraordinary memoire of adolescence' New York Times

PRH, PRH

'A brilliant, often mind-blowing excursion...the sexual scenes here are as deliberately shocking as any recent fiction' Saturday Review

PRH, PRH

'Quite superlative powers of observation...a very rewarding read' Manning Clark, Sydney Morning Herald


PRH, PRH

'Immense originality, wit and gritty wisdom...David Ireland has reached the top.' Patrick White

PRH, PRH