· Thea Astley's brilliant satire on old age shimmers with grief and irony. One of Australia's most important novelists, Thea Astley, is at her most wickedly funny and pertinent in Coda. Free delivery on online orders of $ or more anywhere in Australia. · The latest addition to my website is Thea Astley's Coda. This novel is an affectionate tale about an Australian woman, Kathleen, who is getting older and dementia and incontinence are creeping on. Despite this she keeps on going, despite the fact that she gets lost or locked into shops or galleries. We follow her life. Thea Astley describes the ordinairy life of the charming elderly lady Kathleen Hackendorf from the first person viewpoint. She is an Australian lady who raised two children, a son and daughter, who are successful in their respective fields and who married and had children of their www.doorway.rus: 2.
Coda Author Thea Astley Format/binding HARDCOVER Book condition Used; Very Good Quantity available 1 Edition First Edition Binding Hardcover ISBN 10 ISBN 13 Publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons Place of Publication New York Date Published Bookseller catalogs Fiction- Hardcover/Trade;. Thea Astley's brilliant satire on old age shimmers with grief and irony. One of Australia's most important novelists, Thea Astley, is at her most wickedly funny and pertinent in Coda. Kathleen is facing old age alone. Looking for books by Thea Astley? See all books authored by Thea Astley, including It's Raining in Mango, and Penguin Australian Summer Stories 4, and more on www.doorway.ru
Coda Thea Astley, Author Putnam Publishing Group $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. The Well-Dressed Explorer; It's Raining in Mango. Coda was to have been Thea Astley’s last novel, but fortunately for us it wasn’t. Coda is not a feel-good novel. Kathleen the protagonist sadly knows she is not wanted. She is old, and is suffering from dementia and incontinence. Her children have dumped her into a retirement home. Thea Astley, when she wrote Coda in , may not have had too many passwords to worry about but she knew about the vulnerabilities of old age. Born in , she was only 69 at the time of publication, and she would go on to write two more novels before her death in (The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow in , and Drylands in ).
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