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Leverson, the narrator at the centre of these stories, calls himself a "people freak." Seduced by north Queensland's sultry beauty and unique strangeness, he is as fascinated by the invading hordes of misfits from the south as by the old established Queenslanders. Leverson's ironical yet compassionate view makes every story, every incident, a pointed example of human weakness―or strength.
- Published on: 2015-12-01
- Formats: Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x .50" w x 5.25" l,
- Running time: 6 Hours
- Binding: MP3 CD
From Library Journal
Leverson, a middle-aged "monopod" failure, is the introspective narrator and moral pivot of these modern tales of the Australian rain forest. As he limns the "human geography" of Queensland, its residents, dropouts, drifters, and adventurers seeking Eden or oblivion, he leaves no pretense, folly, or illusion unbared. In "A Northern Belle," the story of Willy Fourcorners reveals what it meant to be black "in those parts." The tale of the couple in "Ladies Need Only Apply" is a tropical paradigm of sexism and subjection. In the title story guests of an alcoholic couple go on a mock quest and end up confronting the essential shallowness in others and themselves. Leverson is a caustic romantic who both perceives the beauty and exploitation of the landscape and still hears "the dying music of this sad poetry." An illuminating collection by the award-winning author of Reaching Tin River ( LJ 4/1/90).
- Mary Soete, San Diego P.L., Cal.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
Miles Franklin Award-winning author Thea Astley (1925 2004) was one of Australia's most respected and acclaimed novelists. She won the Miles Franklin Award four times and in 1989 she was awarded the Patrick White Award. Her titles include Hunting the Wild Pineapple and It's Raining in Mango both are published in audio by Bolinda.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Eccentric Lives: The Lost and Found
By Erika Borsos
Keith Leverson [from the book, "The Slow Natives", also by Thea Astley] has lived and experienced life on many levels ... most often painfully on the emotional and physical planes. He survived a life-threatening auto accident that left him introspective, much more so than during his rebellious teenage years. He has become a keen observer of human nature. This book shares his penetrating insights into the human condition. It describes his experiences and the lives of the odd unusual young people who are looking for meaning outside conventional society. In the words of the author, "They're the new urban trendies ... They're crawling back to the good earth in their hunt for feudal share-cropping, buying up their 5-, 10-, 20- acre blocks, living with a roof, a tamped earth floor, and hessian sides." [p.19]
Thea Astley has a wry sense of humor expressed with razor edged clarity and precision. Leverson describes himself as a "monoped self-pitier" (referring to the amputation of his leg in the previous book). He is a "people person" enjoying humanity in all its frailty and courage. The first story challenges a tuba playing self-destructive wrist-slashing young female to share her self in a commune with several male partners ... She had become a convert to Christianity, a Jesus freak, and was urged to be "generous" and Christian in her expression of this alternative lifestyle. One of the most intriguing stories was "Ladies Need Only Apply". Stringer, a macrobiotic gardner and musician lived way out in the wildnerness. He placed a want ad ... seeking a "genuine lady" to be his companion. Miss Klein had recently turned 42 and was looking for adventure, something to erase her boredom. She found herself oddly attracted to the aging hippie who placed the ad. While he advocated "free love" and a natural lifestyle ... he did not coerce her into his pattern of living although, gradually he wore down her resistance and she succombed. She became more of a slave to him who advocated freedom than she would have within any conventional relationship. The author uses superior descriptions and imagery to create unforgettable and unusual characters. The odd lives they lead weave a hypnotic spell over the reader who is drawn to their bizarre behavor and strange lifestyles ... wanting to see how the other half lives. Erika Borsos (erikab93)
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Best enjoyed with a fruity cocktail, whist recumbent in a chaise longue, and staring wistfully out to sea
By td Whittle
This is a marvellous collection, and I cannot believe I've lived in Australia for nearly a decade now but not read Thea Astley. I have been missing out. She's an astonishing writer, in all ways. This set of short stories was published over thirty years ago, but it is fresh and snappy and poignant. I laughed aloud at some parts, and got a bit weepy in others.
I cannot seriously recommend any of the stories as as better written than others, but I do have my favourites: "The Curate Breaker", "A Northern Belle", "Ladies Need Only Apply", and "Write Me, Son, Write Me". But the other four stories are as beautiful, in their own ways, and "A Man Who's Tired of Swiper's Creek is Tired of Living" is one that made my heart catch in my throat. (Before you judge me, read the bit about the elderly lady, far from home and all that is familiar to her, wandering alone and confused on the airstrip tarmac).
A few of the stories invoke elements of the Gothic, akin to what one finds in Jean Rhys's "The Wide Sargasso Sea", which I think of as Romantic Gothicism in the West Indies. Also, there's something about the tone of the narrator, Leverson, whose voice weaves in and out of the stories, as the common thread binding the local characters together, which reminds me vaguely of Tennessee Williams (only straight and Australian, if you can imagine). I see Leverson as someone a bit outside it all, perhaps in a TW-style elegant white suit and jaunty hat, sipping chilled cocktails and being exceedingly kind and polite, whilst taking mental notes of every passing detail.
In many -- or even most -- of the stories, there is a sense of isolation and building dread, often due to a felt but not clearly understood menace, and then there are the big and little acts of evil perpetrated by looming characters whom the protagonists are unable to escape -- either due to actual or perceived limitations on their own part -- and who darken the landscape like an eclipse. I would put two of the most powerful stories in the Tropical Gothic category, for certain: "The Curate Breaker" and "Ladies Need Only Apply".
(Aside: If you like literary Gothicism -- I certainly do -- and you want a flavour of how Australian's handle that, you might enjoy Joan Lindsay's "Picnic at Hanging Rock". There are others, I am sure, but that one springs to mind first as outstanding in its ability to evoke all that sense of Gothic creepiness, whilst taking place in the bright sunlight of the Australian bush. Terror in sunlight is an especially clever trick to pull off, I think, when it does not involve crocodiles, snakes, spiders, or the much-maligned-but-mostly-harmless dingo.)
Another feather in Thea Astley's writing cap is that you cannot predict her -- or at least, I could not. She does not necessarily give you the character behaviour, the dialogue, or the endings you expect, but neither does she use cheap tricks to mislead you. She is simply hugely talented and quietly shocking in an era that does not shock easily.
The question I cannot answer, which I would have been able to at one time, is how culturally embedded this book is ... by which I mean, do you need to be an Aussie to "get it"? I think not, because the stories are all set in Far North Queensland, which is the tropics, and which is a far cry from the temperate Victorian south, where I live. The people have their own ways up there, just as we do down here, and yet, the stories sing, and go on singing, even to us Southerners.
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