![]() ![]() "Finely honed structurally and tightly textured, it's a wry, romantic story that should make Anderson's American reputation and create a demand for her other work." - The Washington Post With a courage born of desperation and sustained by a spirited sense of humor, Nora travels to London, and it is there that she becomes the woman she wants to be. To escape her tightly knit small-town family, she marries, only to find herself confined again, this time in a stifling Sydney suburb with a selfish, sanctimonious husband. ISBN 2-0).įor Nora Porteous, life is a series of escapes. It is included in Carmen Callil and Colm Tóibín's collection The Modern Library: The Best 200 Novels in English since 1950 (Picador 1999. Though written some years before, it was first published in 1978. ![]() Tirra Lirra by the River is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Jessica Anderson. ![]()
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