Thea Astley won the coveted Miles Franklin Award for the third time with this powerful, bitterly funny novel, her favourite among her own works. Many lives orbit around the radiant genius of Jack Holberg - including wife, lover, child and acolyte - all slowly destroyed by their devotion to the blind musician. Thea Astley: The Acolyte. Paul Vesper lives in the wittily named backwater Australian town of Grogbusters. While out and about in the town, he occasionally comes across a blind pianist, who seems to play a mixture of popular, jazz and classical music. One day, while at an engagement party, this pianist, who, he learns, is called Jack Holberg, is playing. Two by Astley: A Kindness Cup; The Acolyte by Astley, Thea and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru
The Acolyte. Thea Astley. Thea Astley was one of Australia's most respected and acclaimed novelists. Born in Brisbane in , Astley studied arts at the University of Queensland. She held a position as Fellow in Australian Literature at Macquarie University until , when she retired to write full time. Thea Beatrice May Astley AO (25 August - 17 August ) was an Australian novelist and short story writer. She was a prolific writer who was published for over 40 years from At the time of her death, she had won more Miles Franklin Awards, Australia's major literary award, than any other www.doorway.ru well as being a writer, she taught at all levels of education - primary. Last Updated on May 7, , by eNotes Editorial. Word Count: Told in the first person by "the acolyte," Paul Vesper, Thea Astley's novel traces the career of a fictional Australian.
A renewed interest in music in literature has emerged with the advent of the ‘new’ cultural musicology, which reads music as a social discourse made meaningful through language. This article attends to Thea Astley’s novel, The Acolyte, to begin thinking about the function of classical music in Australian literature. Awarded the prestigious Miles Franklin Award in , Astley’s novel centres on the life and work of a blind pianist composer named Jack Holberg living on Queensland. Two by Astley: A Kindness Cup; The Acolyte by Astley, Thea and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru The Acolyte is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Thea Astley first published in
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