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The drover's wife / Leah Purcell.

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781760620974 (paperback)
Classification	819.24 PUR
Personal Name	Purcell, Leah, 1970-
Title	The drover's wife / Leah Purcell.
Edition	Revised edition.
Production & Copyright Details	Strawberry Hills, NSW Currency Press, 2017.
Production & Copyright Details	©2017
Physical Description	xv, 60 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
Content type	text
Content type	still image
Series	Currency plays
Note	First published in 2016.
Summary Note	Tarantino meets Deadwood in this full-throttle drama of our colonial past. Henry Lawson's story of the Drover's Wife pits the stoic silhouette of a woman against the unforgiving Australian landscape, staring down a serpent-it's our frontier myth captured in a few pages. In Leah's new play the old story gets a very fresh rewrite. Once again the Drover's Wife is confronted by a threat in her yard, but now it's a man. He's bleeding, he's got secrets, and he's black. She knows there's a fugitive wanted for killing whites, and the district is thick with troopers, but something's holding the Drover's Wife back from turning this fella in...
Subject - Topical Term	Pioneers and pioneer life -- Australia -- Drama
	Aboriginal Australians -- Drama
	Australian drama -- 21st century
	Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Drama
	Women pioneers -- Australia -- Drama
Subject - Geographic Name	Australia -- History -- Drama
Subject - Genre	Drama