The Road from Coorain (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Jill Ker Conway
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: 1950’s, Maturation or coming of age, Parents and children, Sexism, Gender roles, 1940’s, 1930’s, Feminism, Women’s issues, Farms, farmers, or farming, Fathers, Colleges or universities, Ranches, ranchers, or ranching, Nursing or nurses, Career women, Australia or Australians
- Locales: Europe, United States, Sydney, Australia, New South Wales, Australia
Jill Ker Conway describes Coorain, the thousands of acres of land on which she was reared in the Western Division of New South Wales, as “a tapestry of delicate life--not the luxuriant design of a book of hours by any means, but a tapestry nonetheless, designed by a spare modern artist.”
Indeed, Conway’s vivid word pictures themselves constitute tapestry, a magic carpet transporting the reader to the Australia of the 1930’s, 1940’s, and 1950’s, a time and place rendered acutely familiar by a writer whose powerful observations reveal character as precisely as they...
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