Eucalyptus
Author: Bail, Murray
ISBN: 9781875847945
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Year First Published: 1998
Pages: 264
Dimensions: 209mm x 136mm x 19mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
Eucalyptus is a modern fairy tale and an unpredictable love story. Haunting and mesmeric, it illuminates the nature of story-telling itself.
1999 Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize.
On a property in western New South Wales a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. Over the years, as she grows into a beautiful young woman, he plants hundreds of different gum trees on his land. When Ellen is nineteen her father announces his decision- she will marry the man who can name all his species of eucalyptus, down to the last tree . . .
ISBN: 9781875847945
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Year First Published: 1998
Pages: 264
Dimensions: 209mm x 136mm x 19mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
Eucalyptus is a modern fairy tale and an unpredictable love story. Haunting and mesmeric, it illuminates the nature of story-telling itself.
1999 Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize.
On a property in western New South Wales a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. Over the years, as she grows into a beautiful young woman, he plants hundreds of different gum trees on his land. When Ellen is nineteen her father announces his decision- she will marry the man who can name all his species of eucalyptus, down to the last tree . . .
