The Well-Dressed Explorer
First edition
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| Author | Thea Astley |
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| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Angus and Robertson |
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Publication date
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1962 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 254 |
| Preceded by | A Descant for Gossips |
| Followed by | The Slow Natives |
The Well Dressed Explorer (1962) is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Thea Astley. This novel shared the award with The Cupboard Under the Stairs by George Turner.
The novel follows journalist, George Brewster, who moves from city to city, from empty love affair to empty love affair, until he dies. He is married, but faithless to his wife...and is ultimately a "pathetic figure".
The themes of this novel are common to Astley's novels: "the hurts inflicted inadvertently and deliberately on others, the terrible shallowness underlying the inability to identify imaginatively with others, and the destruction of others and of the self by wrongly conceived actions."
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