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Like new: A book that looks new but has been read. Cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket ...
Publication Year
2000
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
The Dressmaker
Item Height
199mm
Author
Rosalie Ham
Publisher
Duffy and Snellgrove
Topic
Books
Item Width
130mm
Item Weight
275g
Number of Pages
304 Pages

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The bestseller from the author of the upcoming new novel The Year of the Farmer. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING KATE WINSLET AND LIAM HEMSWORTH Tilly Dunnage has come home to care for her mad old mother. She left the small Victorian town of Dungatar years before, and became an accomplished couturier in Paris. Now she earns her living making exquisite frocks for the people who drove her away when she was ten. Through the long Dungatar nights, she sits at her sewing machine, planning revenge. The Dressmaker is a modern Australian classic, much loved for its bittersweet humour. Set in the 1950s, its subjects include haute couture, love and hate, and a cast of engagingly eccentric characters. The major motion picture also stars Judy Davis, Hugo Weaving, and extras from the author's hometown of Jerilderie. PRAISE FOR THE DRESSMAKER [Rosalie Ham] is a true original. Blessed with an astringently unsentimental tone and a talent for creating memorably eccentric characters, Ham also possesses a confidently brisk and mischievous sense of plot. It's no wonder The Dressmaker, a tale of small-town couture and revenge, is being adapted for film. The Sydney Morning Herald It's clear we're visiting a small 1950s town not of history but as imagined by Tim Burton: the gothic, polarized world of Edward Scissorhands... Ham has real gifts as a writer of surfaces and pictures, bringing Tilly's frocks to surprising, animated life. The New York Times Book Review Ham's eye for the absurd, the comical, and the poignant are highly tuned. [The Dressmaker] is a first novel to be proud of, and definitely one to savor. The Weekend Australian The book's true pleasures involve the way Rosalie Ham has small-town living down pat...she channels welcome shades of British novelist Angela Carter's sly, funny, and wickedly Gothic adornments...Blunt, raw and more than a little fantastical, the novel exposes both the dark and the shimmering lights in our human hearts. The Boston Globe With the retribution of Carrie, the quirkiness of Edward Scissorhands, and the scandal of Desperate Housewives... Booklist

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Publisher
Duffy and Snellgrove
ISBN-13
9781875989706
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95708730

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Book Title
The Dressmaker
Author
Rosalie Ham
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2000
Number of Pages
304 Pages

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Item Height
199mm
Item Width
130mm
Item Weight
275g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Rosalie Ham
Country/Region of Manufacture
Australia

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  • by jillbees
    05 Jul, 2018

    A entertaining Australian book

    A great read. The book was easy to read and kept me interested throughout. It was unpredictable and entertaining with more that a touch of sadness. I recognized characters from my childhood and found the Australian flavor unique. Read it several times.

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