Coda
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
In the searing heat of Queensland's coastal towns, Thea Astley's Coda presents the fierce and darkly comic story of Kathleen Hackendorf, a seventy-year-old woman cast off by her family and forced to confront the brutal indignities of ageing in modern Australia. With nowhere to turn and nowhere to belong, she navigates a society that has rendered her invisible, her stubborn, irreverent spirit the only weapon she has left against a world determined to discard her. Astley, one of Australia's most decorated and formidable literary voices, brings her signature blend of savage wit and moral fury to this unflinching examination of ageism, independence, and the quiet violence of neglect. Her prose is precise and unsparing, shot through with a dark humour that refuses sentimentality even as it demands empathy. Coda stands as a bold and resonant coda — in the truest musical sense — to the themes of social marginalisation that defined her extraordinary career, leaving the reader to wonder how much has truly changed.
Author: Thea Astley
Format: Hardback
Published: 1994, William Heinemann Australia
Genre: Australian history
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
In the searing heat of Queensland's coastal towns, Thea Astley's Coda presents the fierce and darkly comic story of Kathleen Hackendorf, a seventy-year-old woman cast off by her family and forced to confront the brutal indignities of ageing in modern Australia. With nowhere to turn and nowhere to belong, she navigates a society that has rendered her invisible, her stubborn, irreverent spirit the only weapon she has left against a world determined to discard her. Astley, one of Australia's most decorated and formidable literary voices, brings her signature blend of savage wit and moral fury to this unflinching examination of ageism, independence, and the quiet violence of neglect. Her prose is precise and unsparing, shot through with a dark humour that refuses sentimentality even as it demands empathy. Coda stands as a bold and resonant coda — in the truest musical sense — to the themes of social marginalisation that defined her extraordinary career, leaving the reader to wonder how much has truly changed.