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An accommodating spouse Jolley, Elizabeth
Australia, 02 December 1999 Viking 1999 0-670-88893-1 / 9780670888931 Hardcover Good Good
Product Description Some Very light foxing to book. Laden with wit, irony and Jolley's perceptive musings on the ties that bind us, this comedy of manners tells the story of an eccentric professor and the seven women in his life. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The Newspaper of Claremont Street Jolley, Elizabeth
Australia, 01 August 1989 Fremantle Press 1992 0-949206-59-8 / 9780949206596 Softcover Good
From Publishers Weekly The memorable heroine of this novel is a walking "newspaper," who tells the people whose houses she cleans about all the events in the neighborhood. A "sad, sometimes wildly funny, altogether wonderful story," cheered PW. (Dec . Review 'Elizabeth Jolley joins the handful of Australian writers ... of whom it may be said that their books are able to alter the direction of one's inner life' WASHINGTON POST 'Her writing is splendid, her characters various, her humour delicious ... one of the best writers of fiction in this country' AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW Success came comparatively late to English-Austrian Jolley, who migrated to Western Australia with her husband and three children in 1959. Decades later, she is the author of more than a dozen highly acclaimed works of fiction. Eccentricity is Jolley's territory, and this re-issued work gives the reader great insight into the psyche and trials of an unskilled ageing woman, a loner and a battler who pursues her goal in life with quite ruthless determination. The Newspaper or Weekly, as she is called by those who know her, is an old cleaning woman, whose constant hard work and extreme frugality are the methods she has of making her dream come true. With a basically loving nature conditioned by church-going, she has been regularly exploited from her earliest childhood and has therefore become adept at devising solutions to her various problems. She cleans around the major events in other people's lives and is a source of information for everybody in Claremont Street, so her acquired expert knowledge of human nature and its insecurities is an invaluable aid in constructing strategies for her own survival. This is a deceptively simple but occasionally shocking novel. Flashbacks integrated seamlessly into the current narrative flow mean that the reader has access to the formative events of Weekly's whole life. Jolley's descriptions of Australian suburbia have an exact touch, the bush idyll is lovingly evoked and her creation of the various characters' voices is deadly accurate. The reader comes to ponder various oppositions: upper/lower class, the powerful/powerless, urban/rural and European/Australian. A thought-provoking read. (Kirkus UK) When writers expand successful short stories into novels, the results are nearly always thin and problematic. (One recent example from the mystery genre: Lawrence Block's When the Sacred Ginmill Closes.) And so it is with this strained novella, expanded from a simple, pleasant, fable-like story in Jolley's 1986 collection, Woman in a Lampshade. "The Newspaper of Claremont Street" is elderly Australian charwoman Margie Morris, who relays the latest domestic news as she cleans one house after another along middle-class Claremont Street. But, while trading gossip or singing hymns to brighten her work, "Weekly" - as she's known to one and all - is always single-mindedly adding up her wages, most of which she's been hoarding for years, saving up so she can buy herself the one all-important, life-transfiguring thing: land. In the short-story version, this quest for a place and vista of one's own - culminating in a dance of jubilation around a pear tree - had both a spare, stately force and a wry, ironic tilt. Here, however, it's encumbered with socio-psychological details that reduce "Weekly" to a clinical case: she recalls her imprisoned mother and her ne'er-do-well brother in awkwardly inserted flashbacks. ("Thoughts from times long ago came crowding into her mind.") Moreover, the novel version is dominated by a not-quite-believable subplot: "Weekly," atoning for her bygone, unintentional betrayal of that wastrel brother, allows herself to be thoroughly manipulated by a pathetic old Russian emigre, a spoiled madwoman/baby who threatens to spoil the charwoman's dream of quiet, landed retirement. ("Weekly felt she must not fail Nastasya. It seemed to her that not failing people was what counted in her
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