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Eve Langley and the Pea Pickers by Helen Vines (2021, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMonash University Publishing
ISBN-101922464392
ISBN-139781922464392
eBay Product ID (ePID)7057279348
Product Key Features
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameEve Langley and the Pea Pickers
SubjectWomen Authors, General, Literary
Publication Year2021
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorHelen Vines
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight16.7 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsEve Langley's strange story, in all its contradictory versions, its secrets and silences, has baffled many literary sleuths. Helen Vines disentangles facts from fantasies with patience and sensitivity. The author of that much-loved story of outback Australia The Pea Pickers emerges as a tragically flawed yet resilient writer whose distinctive talents came to being within a tempestuous life. -- Brenda Niall
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal823.3
SynopsisAutobiography or fiction? This question has shadowed the work of enigmatic Australian author Eve Langley since her first novel, The Pea Pickers , was published in 1942. Almost immediately after, Eve was committed to a mental asylum in Auckland where she remained for more than seven years, separated from her three young children. Hailed as a tour de force, The Pea Pickers was based on Eve's real-life experiences in the 1920s and tells the story of two feisty sisters who wander the Australian countryside dressed as men seeking work and adventure. But woven subtly into this brilliant and funny coming-of-age story is the portrait of a complex family constellation: a masculine mother, an evil father, the narrator's adoring sister, and a perplexing heroine who adopts the name of Steve Hart, one of the Ned Kelly gang who was known to masquerade as a woman. Drawing on contemporary evidence, Eve Langley and The Pea Pickers offers a biography that unravels the life and the fiction, and the result is a fascinating and ultimately poignant tale., Autobiography or fiction? This question has shadowed the work of enigmatic Australian author Eve Langley since her death in 1974. Was her writing the truth, or false, or somewhere in between? What did it mean when she described her father as 'evil' and 'perverted' in her first published novel The Pea Pickers (1942) and a kindly figure in later, unpublished work? Did she really believe herself to be Oscar Wilde? Was she gender fluid? Eve and her sister (and co-conspirator) June held onto family secrets as if their very lives depended on it. Eve Langley has been in the news since the 1920s and reviewed on both sides of the globe. She was an author, a wife, a mother, a sister, a daughter and a long-term psychiatric inmate. But June, who traversed the Australian countryside dressed as a boy, a willing lifelong companion to her beloved sister, is a lonely anonymous figure. Drawing on contemporary evidence, Eve Langley and the Pea Pickers gives the key players in the author's life a voice, and the result is a fascinating but ultimately poignant tale of love and loss.
LC Classification NumberPR9599.L284Z5
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