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Man from Mukinupin Second Edition
Author(s): Dorothy Hewett (Author)
- Publisher: Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)
- Publication Date: 1 Jan. 2012
- Edition: Second
- Language: English
- Print length: 96 pages
- ISBN-10: 0868199176
- ISBN-13: 9780868199177
Book Description
‘Only Dorothy could conceive of such a harvest festival in a town where the orchards are dying, the salt is rising and it is 114 degrees in the shade’, wrote Katharine Brisbane in her foreword to the first edition. ‘Shakespeare, and the popular poets of the day… hang in baroque garlands about the inhabitants of Mukinupin, and remind us of the eternal optimism, independence and resource of those who made this country.’
The Man From Mukinupin is a musical celebration of country life in Australia, set in a West Australian wheat belt town at the time of the Great War.
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About the Author
DOROTHY HEWETT achieved distinction as a playwright, poet and novelist. Her stage works include The Chapel Perilous, Mrs Porter and the Angels, Bon-Bons and Roses for Dolly, The Golden Oldies, Pandora’s Cross, The Man from Mukinupin, Golden Valley, The Fields of Heaven and Nowhere. The plays range in style but all exploit the imaginative possibilities of language, music and theatrical effects. Many of her early plays in particular shocked audiences with their explicit female sexuality, and she retained a maverick image and an ability to polarise audiences and critics through her life. Hewett also published eleven volumes of poetry, with three novels, a collection of short stories and an autobiography.
