| 词条 | An Item from the Late News |
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| name = An Item from the Late News | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:AnItemFromTheLateNews.jpg | image_caption = First edition | author = Thea Astley | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = Australia | language = English | series = | genre = | publisher = University of Queensland Press, Australia | release_date = 1982 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (Hardback and Paperback) | pages = 200 | isbn = 0702217026 | preceded_by = A Kindness Cup | followed_by = Beachmasters }} An Item from the Late News (1982) is a novel by Australian author Thea Astley. Plot summaryThe narrator here is arch, sarcastic, oblique Gabby, a painter who, in reaction against her boring upper-middle family, has been through marriage, affairs, bohemianism, and a breakdown..Now, back in her home-town of Allbut, a former mining center that's become a near-ghost town ""in our continental funkerama,"" Gabby is oddly entranced by a newcomer named Wafer--an overage hippie whose only goal is to find ""the perfect bomb shelter."" (His father was a WW II bomb fatality; he's obsessed with Hiroshima.) But Wafer's quiet quest on the town's outskirts will be doomed--by the town's greed and hypocrisy and violence, by Gabby's own self-involved apathy: Wafer is terrorized by a local macho-thug; his fatherly affection for a teenage girl (the thug's rape victim) is used against him. And when Wafer happens to find a precious stone on one of his wanderings, the town will stop at nothing to learn the location of this possible new gem-lode. . . with a predictably fatal outcome.[1] Reviews
References1. ^1 [https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/thea-astley-7/an-item-from-the-late-news/ Kirkus Reviews] 2. ^"Violence Under the Sun" by Marian Eldridge, The Canberra Times, 28 May 1983, p12
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