Hunting the Wild Pineapple | |
Author: | Thea Astley |
Country: | Australia |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | Nelson |
Release Date: | 1979 |
Media Type: | Print (Paperback) |
Pages: | 175 pp |
Isbn: | 0170054055 |
Preceded By: | A Kindness Cup |
Followed By: | An Item from the Late News |
Hunting the Wild Pineapple (1979) is a collection of short stories by Australian writer Thea Astley. It was published in paperback by Nelson Publishers in Sydney in 1979.[1]
The collection includes 8 original stories by the author.[1]
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The 8 stories in this collection are all narrated by Leverson who has been seduced by North Queensland's beauty and strangeness. He observed both southern imports, as well as long-term Queensland residents, equally.
Lyn Frost, writing in The Canberra Times noted that the collection "gives an award-winning Australian author full rein. Astley, a Queenslander, has returned there to write and discovered a whole new population...Astley conveys 'a lot of sad poetry' and humour about the place which is 'a kind of carpet-bagger's paradise'."[2]
The collection was also published as follows:
The collection won the Colin Roderick Award in 1979.[5]