| Paydirt Contributor(s): Fallon, Kathleen Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: 1920694978 ISBN-13: 9781920694975 Publisher: University of Western Australia Press OUR PRICE: $19.31 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2007 Annotation: "I feel myself slipping into Amnesia. All the stories of my life slipping away. I am his guardian. I cannot leave my post. Sometimes I think if they just took Warren away I'd forget about him in a week... Every voice is saying, 'Give it away, girlie! After all these years, after all you know about him, don't let them do it to him!'" ~ Kate in Paydirt --- When Kate, a white Australian foster mother, takes her 18-year old Torres Straight Islander foster son back to Brisbane to meet his sick birth mother, Kate's own mother has a homecoming of a very different kind planned for her daughter. Unfolding via four dramatic monologues, Paydirt paints a portrait of contemporary Australia that is that is anything but black versus white. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2008353091 |
| Series: University of Western Australia Press New Writing |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 7.8" (0.40 lbs) 174 pages |
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| Publisher Description: I feel myself slipping into Amnesia. All the stories of my life slipping away. I am his guardian. I cannot leave my post. Sometimes I think if they just took Warren away I'd forget about him in a week... Every voice is saying, 'Give it away, girlie After all these years, after all you know about him, don't let them do it to him ' So run the troubled thoughts of Kate, the white foster mother, as she and her Torrres Strait Islander foster son Warren fly to Brisbane to meet his dying mother Flo. Warren hasn't seen his birth mother since he was a toddler, taken away by the authorities 'for his own good'. What should Kate tell Flo about her son's long history of bureaucratic abuse and heartless disregard? And how can she begin to imagine the pain of Flo and her people? Based on Kathleen Mary Fallon's script for the film Call Me Mum, Paydirt presents four provocative monologues highlighting the complex dramas of race politics beneath the complacent fa ade of contemporary Australia. This is a confronting, at times funny and ultimately deeply affirming novel. ... emotion, thought and literary form all tussling together and triumphing. - Ross Gibson, author of Seven Versions of an Australian Badland Kathleen Mary Fallon is amongst the most talented writers in Australia. - Adrian Martin, The Monthly |