The Commandant by Jessica Anderson
When prisoners escape Moreton Bay penal settlement with their stories of punishment, the press takes their side. Commandant Logan, convinced of the rectitude of his administration, is faced with an enemy he has never known before. He is forced to face the reaction to his discipline after the arrival of his sister-in-law, Frances.
Jessica Anderson was born in Gayndah, Queensland in 1916. She left school at the age of sixteen before briefly studying art at Brisbane Technical College. For most of her life she lived in Sydney. Anderson wrote stories and adapted novels for radio before she published her first novel, An Ordinary Lunacy, in 1963. In 1978, she won the Miles Franklin Literary Award for Tirra Lirra by the River, and again in 1980 for The Impersonators, which also won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction. In 1987 her story collection, Stories from the Warm Zone, won the Age Book of the Year award. Jessica Anderson died in July 2010, at the age of ninety-three. Carmen Callil founded Virago Press in 1972 and later became managing director of Chatto & Windus and the Hogarth Press. Since 1995 she has worked as a writer and critic. She is the author of Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland, and co-author, with Colm Tü¾Œ¶˜¼ibü¾™†”¼n, of The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English since 1950.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781921922138 |
| ISBN 10 | 1921922133 |
| Title | The Commandant |
| Author | Jessica Anderson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Text Publishing |
| Year published | 2012-04-26 |
| Number of pages | 462 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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