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Walkabout

Walkabout

By Louis Nowra
ISBN
9780868197005
Publisher
Currency Press
Publication Date
3 June 2003
Edition
Standard
Format
Paperback
Availability
Available as XML or eBook
Categories
Film Books
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Description

Playwright, novelist and screenwriter Louis Nowra says Walkabout ‘destroyed the cliché of the dead heart and made us Australians see it from a unique perspective’.

Biography
Louis Nowra
Louis Nowra

LOUIS NOWRA's plays have been performed here, in Europe, England, Asia and North America. They include Inner Voices, Visions, Inside the Island, Sunrise, The Golden Age, Capricornia, Byzantine Flowers, The Watchtower, Summer of the Aliens, Cosi, Radiance, The Temple, Crow, The Incorruptible, The Jungle, Language of the Gods, The Boyce Trilogy. Some non-fiction works are Walkabout, Chihuahuas, Women and Me, Kings Cross, and its companion volumes, Woolloomooloo and Sydney. His novels comprise, The Misery of Beauty, Palu, Red Nights, Abaza, Ice , Prince of Afghanistan. The Twelfth of Never and Shooting the Moon are his memoirs. Radio plays for the ABC and BBC include The Song Room, Far North, Jez and The Light of Darkness. He was the principal writer for the documentary series First Australians and created the TV series The Last Resort and The Straits. Besides writing libretti, and the telemovies Displaced Persons and The Lizard King, his screen credits include Map of the Human Heart, Cosi, Heaven’s Burning, Radiance, K-19 and Black and White. His most recent works are Collected Stories, the Audible dramas The Goodbye Party, Beatrice Dark, The Divine Hammer and the play, This Much is True.

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Book Data
Cast Info -
Genres Screenplays/Screen books
Themes First Nations
Audiences Adult
Extent 96
Edition Standard
Size 190 x 135
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