| 词条 | Edens Lost (novel) |
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| name = Edens Lost | title_orig = | translator = | image = | caption = | author = Sumner Locke Elliott | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = | language = English | series = | genre = | publisher = Harper and Row, New York | release_date = 1969 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print Hardback & Paperback | pages = 279 pp | isbn = | oclc = | preceded_by = Some Doves and Pythons | followed_by = The Man Who Got Away }}Edens Lost (1969) is a novel by Australian writer Sumner Locke Elliott.[1] Plot summaryThe novel is a family saga told through the eyes of 16-year-old Angus Weekes who goes to live with the St James family in the Blue Mountains area of New South Wales after the death of his guardian. Critical receptionOn its original publication Kirkus Review found: "All of this is, in its fashion, opulently romantic and pleasantly parlayed in silvery, sugary words (delightfuls and entrancings) without altogether forfeiting the realities of living and loving it sometimes seems to camouflage."[2] Dennis Altman nominated the book as his favourite novel in The Australian and noted: "Like all of Elliott's writings based on his formative years, Edens Lost evokes pre-Menzies Australia through writing that is beautiful and precise. I suspect Elliott is one of the greatest stylists Australian writing has produced, even if a contemporary reader may lose patience at the careful accumulation of detail and minute observation that evokes for me the Sydney in which my parents met and married. I read Edens Lost when it was first published, in the early days of gay liberation, both knowing and not knowing that only a gay man could have written this book."[3]Notes
Television adaptationThe novel was adapted for a television mini-series, produced by Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Central Independent Television. The adaptation was directed by Neil Armfield, from a script by Michael Gow, and featured Julia Blake, Arthur Dignam and Linda Cropper. It was broadcast in Australia on the ABC over 3 episodes commencing on 28 February 1989.[4] See also
References1. ^Austlit - Edens Lost by Sumner Locke Elliott {{Sumner Locke Elliott}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Edens Lost}}2. ^[https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/sumner-locke-elliott/edens-lost/ "Edens Lost by Sumner Locke Elliott", Kirkus Review, 10 September 1969] 3. ^"Sumner Locke Elliott crushed by the sexual constraints of the pre-war world", The Australian, 8 April 2013 4. ^[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095080/ IMDB - Edens Lost] 1 : 1969 Australian novels |
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