The Slow Natives
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
The Slow Natives is a searing portrait of suburban Australian life, chronicling the quiet disintegration of the Leverson family — a comfortably middle-class couple and their withdrawn, spiritually restless teenage son Keith — as their carefully maintained façade of normalcy begins to crack under the pressure of secrets, infidelity, and moral compromise. Set against the sunlit yet stifling landscape of 1960s Australia, Thea Astley constructs a narrative that is at once darkly comic and profoundly unsettling, dissecting the spiritual poverty lurking beneath the surface of post-war prosperity. Astley, one of Australia's most celebrated and criminally underread novelists, writes with a surgeon's precision and a satirist's wit, wielding language that is dense, lyrical, and uncompromising in its moral scrutiny. Winner of the Miles Franklin Award, this novel stands as a landmark of Australian literature, arguing with quiet ferocity that conformity and comfort are themselves a form of corruption. Readers who venture into the Leverson household may find themselves recognising, with uncomfortable clarity, the slow collapse of their own certainties.
Author: Thea Astley
Format: Hardback
Published: 1965, Angus and Robertson
Genre: Australian history
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
The Slow Natives is a searing portrait of suburban Australian life, chronicling the quiet disintegration of the Leverson family — a comfortably middle-class couple and their withdrawn, spiritually restless teenage son Keith — as their carefully maintained façade of normalcy begins to crack under the pressure of secrets, infidelity, and moral compromise. Set against the sunlit yet stifling landscape of 1960s Australia, Thea Astley constructs a narrative that is at once darkly comic and profoundly unsettling, dissecting the spiritual poverty lurking beneath the surface of post-war prosperity. Astley, one of Australia's most celebrated and criminally underread novelists, writes with a surgeon's precision and a satirist's wit, wielding language that is dense, lyrical, and uncompromising in its moral scrutiny. Winner of the Miles Franklin Award, this novel stands as a landmark of Australian literature, arguing with quiet ferocity that conformity and comfort are themselves a form of corruption. Readers who venture into the Leverson household may find themselves recognising, with uncomfortable clarity, the slow collapse of their own certainties.