Newspaper of Claremont Street: Play (Current Theatre) [Paperback]

Alan Belcher (Author), David Britton (Author), Elizabeth Jolley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1991 | Series: Current Theatre

This is the story of an old cleaning woman, known as Weekly, or 'The Newspaper'. Unknown to the residents of Claremont Street, for whom she works, Weekly dreams of escape - escape from the parasitic demands of both her past and her present. Weekly is one of Elizabeth Jolly's major creations; one of the wiry survivors whose vulnerability is Jolley's special task of illumination. This character is perhaps the author's outstanding achievement to date, and is created with humour, sharpness, not a little sympathy, and finally, a sort of desperate calm.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The memorable heroine of this novel is a walking "newspaper," who tells the people whose houses she cleans about all the events in the neighborhood. A "sad, sometimes wildly funny, altogether wonderful story," cheered PW. (Dec .
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'Elizabeth Jolley joins the handful of Australian writers ... of whom it may be said that their books are able to alter the direction of one's inner life' WASHINGTON POST 'Her writing is splendid, her characters various, her humour delicious ... one of the best writers of fiction in this country' AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Currency Press (August 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0868193089
• ISBN-13: 978-0868193083