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Ladataan... An item from the late news (vuoden 1982 painos)Tekijä: Thea Astley
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Wafer, who saw his father blown apart by a bomb in the second world war, and who grew up under the shadow of the nuclear bomb, seeks to spend his middle years in a place of solitude where he can prepare for the inevitable... Allbut, scarcely a dot on the map in the vast Queensland outback, seems to be the perfect place. But Wafer's peace-loving ways are not understood by the clean and decent locals and when it comes, the final blast is not the one he expected. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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The novel, narrated by a bitter middle-aged woman with considerable flaws of her own, is the story of a man denied the peace he craves by the venality of an outback town. Signalled as Christlike by his name Wafer, he lives just beyond the town of Allbut in a shelter that he (naïvely) hopes will protect him from a nuclear bomb. A survivalist of sorts, he's built an underground bunker, and divested himself of the 20th century as best he can, earning him the scorn of the ugly rural males that Astley likes to portray. He is understandably obsessed by his fear of bombs — he was a small boy in London when he saw his father obliterated in the Blitz. But the catalyst for this novel expressing fears of nuclear annihilation, I suspect, was Australian and international protests against the 1966-1996 French Nuclear Testing Program in the Pacific (which subsequently culminated in state-sponsored terrorism: the bombing by French intelligence services of the Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand in 1985.) Other current issues in Astley's sights include a coast miscalled Sunshine of the vanishing sand, the varicosed bitumen, the high blood-pressure of high-rise; and PTSD among Vietnam war veterans as portrayed by the sinister evil of Moon.
Gabby, so called by her father and brother because she's always talking about things they deem to be trivial, has been married to men whose names she has forgotten. She is a desultory artist, whose nervous breakdown seems to have been triggered by her mother's insistence that she cannot live without a man. Astley's mocking account of a car-salesman of a psychiatrist whose punishment for her 'misdemeanors' is a long-term long-sleep needle is an allusion to the Chelmsford Private Hospital Deep Sleep Therapy scandal (1963-1979), which triggered the Royal Commission into Mental Health 1988-1990 in NSW.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2020/08/21/an-item-from-the-late-news-by-thea-astley/ ( )