· A complex construction such as that of Robert Drewe’s work The Drowner. published in refers to the interrelatedness or agreement of parts in a complex entity1. Drewe’s novel is a multi-faceted heroic poem love narrative showing a fable of European aspirations in an foreign landscape. and a excellently sustained metaphor of H2O as the life and decease www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 10 mins. · Mingling history, myth, and technology with a modern cinematic and poetic imagination, Robert Drewe presents a fable of European ambitions in an alien landscape, and a magnificently sustained metaphor of water as the life-and-death force. Poetic prose often makes for a lumpy, leaden or overwrought story. Robert Drewe's visceral, languid and sensuous language ensures that 'The Drowner' eddies and churns where others sink like sack stuffed cats thrown into the canal. The books swirls from Wiltshire to Australia with a sense of wonder and hope in spite of the harshest realities/5(27).
The Drowner () is a novel by Australian author Robert www.doorway.ru was shortlisted for Miles Franklin Award, and won the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction and New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Book of the Year in Mingling history, myth and technology with a modern cinematic and poetic imagination, Robert Drewe presents both a fable of European ambitions in an alien landscape and a magnificently sustained metaphor of water as the life and death force. "With The Drowner Drewe has moved into the forefront of contemporary writing in English.". The rubric The Drowner explores the chief concerns of the novel through the different representations of 'drowning'. As a consequence the rubric itself is a complex construction of the novel. Harmonizing to Robert Drewe 'as an business. drowning was someplace between a trade and an art'3.
The Drowner is a novel by Australian author Robert Drewe. It was shortlisted for Miles Franklin Award, and won the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction and New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Book of the Year in THE DROWNER. by Robert Drewe ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 14, As carefully composed as a period photograph, Australian writer Drewe (author of six previous novels, none issued here) frames the love story at the heart of this generally well-rendered tale with evocations of water and its arid opposites—drought and desert. From Library Journal. In Drewe's (Savage Crows, Salem House, ) historical novel of Australia, Will Dance is an engineer in the s, descended from a line of "drowners"?men who irrigate dry lands.
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