The Grisly Wife

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The Grisly Wife
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First edition
Author Rodney Hall
Country Australia
Language English
Genre Novel
Publisher Macmillan, Australia
Publication date
1993
Media type Paperback
Pages261
ISBN 0-7329-0776-4
OCLC 29841439
Preceded by The Second Bridegroom  
Followed byThe Island in the Mind 

The Grisly Wife is a 1993 Miles Franklin literary award-winning novel by the Australian author Rodney Hall. [1]

Contents

The Miles Franklin Award Judges' Report called it "a novel with a rather surprising vision." [2]

This novel is the second book in The Yandilli Trilogy (also referred to as A Dream More Luminous Than Love), though the third to be published, following the novels Captivity Captive in 1988, and The Second Bridegroom in 1991. [1]

Synopsis

Catherine Byrne marries self-proclaimed prophet Muley Moloch and leaves 19th-century England with him and his eight female disciples to search for paradise on earth in the wilds of Australia. But things do not work out as planned, as a shipwreck, illness and death cause the small group to fracture.

Critical reception

Jeff Doyle in The Canberra Times noted: "Hall is not so basic nor simplistic to provide a kind of allegorical reading of these issues under his stories. No, such a naive, perhaps crassly simple, view is the job of a reviewer bent on hinting at the multiple ideas running through the book." [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Austlit - The Grisly Wife by Rodney Hall". Austlit. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  2. ↑ Miles Franklin Award Judges' Report
  3. ↑ ""Funny and tragic second coming in the New World"". The Canberra Times, 30 October 1983, p11. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  4. ↑ "Austlit - The Grisly Wife - Awards". Austlit. Retrieved 18 July 2023.


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