Coonardoo

Resource Information

The work Coonardoo represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Coonardoo

Statement of responsibility

Katharine Susannah Prichard

Creator

• Prichard, Katharine Susannah, 1883-1969

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• Electronic books
• Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Fiction
• Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction
• Man-woman relationships -- Australia -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

A powerful novel about race that's become a classic of Australian literature. A tough, uncompromising novel about the difficult love between a white man and a black woman. Coonardoo is the moving story of a young Aboriginal woman trained from childhood to be the housekeeper at Wytaliba station and, as such, destined to look after its owner, Hugh Watt. the love between Coonardoo and Hugh, which so shocked its readers when the book was first published in 1929, is never acknowledged and so, degraded and twisted in on itself, destroys not only Coonardoo, but also a community which was once peaceful. this frank and daring novel set on the edge of the desert still raises difficult questions about the history of contact between black and white, and its representation in Australian writing

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

A823.2

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult