A Dutiful Daughter
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A haunting work of magical realism and literary fiction, A Dutiful Daughter chronicles the tragic story of the Glover family, trapped in a remote coastal farmstead where the parents have been grotesquely transformed — half-human, half-beast — leaving their daughter Barbara to care for them with a devotion that borders on the sacrificial. Keneally constructs a deeply unsettling yet lyrical narrative that uses the surreal condition of the parents as a powerful metaphor for the suffocating obligations of family, guilt, and rural isolation in mid-twentieth-century Australia. The novel presents Barbara's inner world with remarkable psychological depth, illustrating how duty and love can become indistinguishable from imprisonment. Written with the moral seriousness and poetic intensity that would later define Keneally's celebrated career, the work argues that the bonds of family carry a weight that can warp reality itself. Dark, compassionate, and unforgettable, A Dutiful Daughter stands as one of the most original and underappreciated works in Australian literature.
Author: Thomas Keneally
Format: Hardback
Published: 1971, Angus and Robertson
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A haunting work of magical realism and literary fiction, A Dutiful Daughter chronicles the tragic story of the Glover family, trapped in a remote coastal farmstead where the parents have been grotesquely transformed — half-human, half-beast — leaving their daughter Barbara to care for them with a devotion that borders on the sacrificial. Keneally constructs a deeply unsettling yet lyrical narrative that uses the surreal condition of the parents as a powerful metaphor for the suffocating obligations of family, guilt, and rural isolation in mid-twentieth-century Australia. The novel presents Barbara's inner world with remarkable psychological depth, illustrating how duty and love can become indistinguishable from imprisonment. Written with the moral seriousness and poetic intensity that would later define Keneally's celebrated career, the work argues that the bonds of family carry a weight that can warp reality itself. Dark, compassionate, and unforgettable, A Dutiful Daughter stands as one of the most original and underappreciated works in Australian literature.