Buy Girl with a Monkey by Thea Astley online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 2 editions - starting at $ Shop now. Girl with a monkey is an interesting study of an itinerant woman school teacher in regional towns around Queensland in the s [?] The central figure is engaging and her complex relationship with a range of townsmen is revealed through the author's fairly unkind depiction of lonely men on the hunt for an obedient wife or a quick affair on the www.doorway.ru by: 6. · Written in Astley’s trademark spiky prose, laced with challenging vocabulary and scattered with French phrases and quotations from Horace, Catullus and the Catholic Mass, Girl with a Monkey tells the story of an assertive young woman called Elsie who is escaping from what we would call today a stalker. In her short period of time in what is obviously Townsville though it’s never named, Elsie has Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.
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Girl with a monkey is an interesting study of an itinerant woman school teacher in regional towns around Queensland in the s [?] The central figure is engaging and her complex relationship with a range of townsmen is revealed through the author's fairly unkind depiction of lonely men on the hunt for an obedient wife or a quick affair on the side. Buy Girl with a Monkey by Thea Astley online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 2 editions - starting at $ Shop now. Harry is older and more experienced than Elsie, but vulnerable through his possessive love for her. In an attempt to escape from him, Elsie obtains a transfer. Her last day in town is spent trying to avoid Harry, fearing the violence of his reaction to her desertion and their inevitable encounter. Girl with a Monkey is Thea Astley's first novel.
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