Glenda Adams (1939–2007)
Auteur van Dancing on Coral
Werken van Glenda Adams
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Goodbye to Romance: Stories by New Zealand and Australian Women Writers, 1930-1988 (1989) — Medewerker — 10 exemplaren
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Adams, Glenda
- Officiële naam
- Adams, Glenda Emilie
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Felton, Glenda Emilie (birth name)
- Geboortedatum
- 1939-12-30
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2007-07-11
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Australia
- Geboorteplaats
- Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
- Plaats van overlijden
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Woonplaatsen
- New York, New York, USA
- Opleiding
- Columbia University
University of Sydney
Sydney Girls High School - Beroepen
- novelist
playwright
creative writing teacher - Organisaties
- Columbia University
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Besprekingen
Lijsten
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- Werken
- 7
- Ook door
- 2
- Leden
- 178
- Populariteit
- #120,889
- Waardering
- 3.0
- Besprekingen
- 4
- ISBNs
- 29
Lark stumbles into this bunch of pseudo-intellectuals when she meets her first American. Sprung at the cash register for hiding an extra pat of butter under her roll to save the extra penny, she is defended by Tom Brown:
Tom is studying urban anthropology. He's a social theorist and, in his spare time, a critic of society. And when Lark timidly suggests that the 'anthropological' activities of Tom's mentor Manfred Bird in the Pacific makes him a plunderer, stealing art from societies that couldn't protect themselves', she is promptly patronised by Bird's daughter Donna (who turns out to be Lark's nemesis):
Tom suggests that they take Lark on as a 'project.'
Well, they do, and it mostly consists of getting involved in dubious pranks, infantile protests, a lot of long-winded pompous rhetoric from Tom while Lark fends off drunken advances from young men who lecture her about not perpetuating outdated morality.
Lark doesn't really know what she wants to do but the one thing that she craves, is to leave Australia. Her parents are eccentrics but life, as far as she can tell, is lived elsewhere, and so she applies uselessly for jobs which offer free travel. Her interview at Qantas is cringeworthy: she is told that "in addition to a deep desire to serve others, our hostesses have to be good-looking girls. The best of the crop."
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