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| Author | Ryan O'Neill |
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| Publisher | Brio Books |
Publication date | July 2018 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781925589290 |
The Drover's Wives is a collection of short stories by Ryan O'Neill. It comprises 99 reinterpretations of the 1892 short story "The Drover's Wife" by Australian author Henry Lawson. [1]
O'Neill has dedicated the book to both Lawson and French novelist Raymond Queneau, who was a co-founder of the Oulipo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle) movement in 1960. In The Drover's Wives, O'Neill adopts Queneau's method used in his 1947 book Exercises in Style (French: Exercices de style) which comprises 99 retellings of the same story. [1]
The Drover's Wives was shortlisted for the 2019 Russell Prize and was shortlisted at the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards. [2] [3]