Inside the Island and Precious Woman (PLAYS)
Publisher: Currency Press Pty Ltd
Published: March 15, 1981
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780868190549
Subjects: Drama texts: from c 1900 -
Description: "Inside the island, set in a farming district of western N.S.W. in 1912, demonstrates how a matriarchal imitation of English society is destroyed by an outbreak of 'holy fire', madness from a wheat fungus. In The Precious woman, the child-like Su-Ling, wife of a warrior governor in the China of the 20s, ... learns there is no place for compassion in the execution of social change"--Back cover.