| 词条 | The Slow Natives |
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| name = The Slow Natives | title_orig = | translator = | image = Slow_Natives_book_cover.jpg | image_caption = First edition | author = Thea Astley | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = Australia | language = English | series = | genre = | publisher = Angus and Robertson | release_date = 1965 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback) | pages = 210 | isbn = | preceded_by = The Well Dressed Explorer | followed_by = A Boat Load of Home Folk }} The Slow Natives (1965) is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel[1] by Australian author Thea Astley, the second of her record number of four wins. It also won the 1965 Moomba Award. Plot summarySet in sub-tropical Queensland, the novel examines the relationships between suburban Brisbanites including a priest, nuns and a couple and their teenage son. Style and themesThe novel represents a departure for Astley from her earlier novels in that rather than focusing on one or two particular characters, she moves "freely among a group, switching attention omnisciently from one to another. Almost all the characters suffer from some form of spiritual aridity; in Astley's vision, there often seems nothing between repression, and empty or even corrupt sexuality".[2] Astley's characters in this novel often only realise their failings after disaster has beset them. The father, for example, only realises after his teenage son has lost his leg in a "joy-riding accident", that he has "failed to give his son 'the sort of discipline ... [he] wanted more than anything in the world'."[3] Notes1. ^"Miles Franklin 1965 : Award to Slow Natives", The Canberra Times, 22 April 1966, p22 2. ^Clancy, Laurie Thea Astley Biography: Thea Astley comments 3. ^Taylor and Perkins (2007), p. 246 References
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