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Lädt ... A Kindness Cup (1974)von Thea Astley
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Researching in the archives Belle discovers the long-dead Gaden Lockyer, a colonial pioneer in Jericho Flats, and soon becomes obsessed. Belle's quest for Lockyer is her way of coming to terms with the past - her mother, 'a drummer in her own all-women's group'; her absent American father; and her ineffectual husband, Seb. In Reaching Tin River, Thea Astley's satire is at its sharpest and most entertaining. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Alternating back and forth in time, from events surrounding the massacre to twenty years afterwards, A Kindness Cup exposes small town memorialisation as a lie. The occasion is a reunion to celebrate the founding of a town with a weeklong extravaganza of speeches, drinking and a performance by the town songbird who made good elsewhere. Now aged 60, Latin teacher Tom Dorahy has returned as an avenging angel to expose the involvement of his pupil Buckmaster in the death of Kowaha and her baby girl. Buckmaster now is an honoured citizen, knighted along with Sweetman for handling (i.e. breaking) the sugar strike and for owning more acres of sweet grass in the north than any man had the right to own. Dorahy's musings establish that (like most of the class) Buckmaster was stupid and lazy; he also had a father whose patronage kept him at the school. Defeated by his attempts to educate these lumpish boys, as a man of 37 Dorahy was capable of only minor acts of malice:
Here Dorahy allows himself a self-indulgent joke: he wants Buckmaster to know that he has scored 'nought' on his ill-spelled Latin translation. Thea Astley is making the same comment about the enquiry into Kowaha's death — Buckmaster's testimony before a magistrate follows, and the enquiry achieves 'nort'.
Characters of all moral stripes flesh out the panorama of treachery.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2020/08/19/a-kindness-cup-by-thea-astley/ ( )