A Dutiful Daughter
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A work of magical realism and psychological intensity, A Dutiful Daughter chronicles the haunting story of the Glover family, trapped in a remote Australian coastal farmstead where the parents have been grotesquely transformed — half-human, half-animal — leaving their children, Barbara and Damian, to navigate a world of obligation, shame, and desperate love. Thomas Keneally constructs a surreal yet deeply human narrative that argues the monstrous can be an outward expression of the burdens families silently impose upon one another. Barbara, the dutiful daughter of the title, bears the weight of her family's secret with a quiet, aching devotion that anchors the novel's emotional core, while her brother Damian seeks escape into the wider world beyond their isolated existence. Written with lyrical precision and an unsettling dreamlike tone, the novel illustrates how duty, guilt, and love can become indistinguishable forces that bind and ultimately define us. An early and daring work from one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices, it stands as a bold meditation on sacrifice and the suffocating power of familial loyalty.
Author: Thomas Keneally
Format: Hardback
Published: 1971, Angus and Robertson
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A work of magical realism and psychological intensity, A Dutiful Daughter chronicles the haunting story of the Glover family, trapped in a remote Australian coastal farmstead where the parents have been grotesquely transformed — half-human, half-animal — leaving their children, Barbara and Damian, to navigate a world of obligation, shame, and desperate love. Thomas Keneally constructs a surreal yet deeply human narrative that argues the monstrous can be an outward expression of the burdens families silently impose upon one another. Barbara, the dutiful daughter of the title, bears the weight of her family's secret with a quiet, aching devotion that anchors the novel's emotional core, while her brother Damian seeks escape into the wider world beyond their isolated existence. Written with lyrical precision and an unsettling dreamlike tone, the novel illustrates how duty, guilt, and love can become indistinguishable forces that bind and ultimately define us. An early and daring work from one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices, it stands as a bold meditation on sacrifice and the suffocating power of familial loyalty.