The natural way of things
(Book)
Author:
Published:
New York, N.Y. : Europa Editions, 2016.
Physical Desc:
230 pages ; 21 cm
Status:
Central
FICTION Wood, C.
North Highlands-Antelope
FICTION Wood, C.
Description
"A Handmaid's Tale for the 21st century" (Prism Magazine), Wood's dystopian tale about a group of young women held prisoner in the Australian desert is a prescient feminist fable for our times. As the Guardian writes, "contemporary feminism may have found its masterpiece of horror."
Drugged, dressed in old-fashioned rags, and fiending for a cigarette, Yolanda wakes up in a barren room. Verla, a young woman who seems vaguely familiar, sits nearby. Down a hallway echoing loudly with the voices of mysterious men, in a stark compound deep in the Australian outback, other captive women are just coming to. Starved, sedated, the girls can't be sure of anything—except the painful episodes in their pasts that link them.
Drawing strength from the animal instincts they're forced to rely on, the women go from hunted to hunters, along the way becoming unforgettable and boldly original literary heroines that readers will both relate to and root for.
The Natural Way of Things is a lucid and illusory fable and a brilliantly plotted novel of ideas that reminds us of mankind's own vast contradictions—the capacity for savagery, selfishness, resilience, and redemption all contained by a single, vulnerable body.
Winner
2016 Stella Prize
2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award in Fiction
An Australian Indie Best Fiction Book & Overall Book of the Year Winner
Finalist
2017 International Dublin Literary Award
2016 Voss Literary Prize
2016 Victorian Premier's Award
2016 The Miles Franklin Award
Drugged, dressed in old-fashioned rags, and fiending for a cigarette, Yolanda wakes up in a barren room. Verla, a young woman who seems vaguely familiar, sits nearby. Down a hallway echoing loudly with the voices of mysterious men, in a stark compound deep in the Australian outback, other captive women are just coming to. Starved, sedated, the girls can't be sure of anything—except the painful episodes in their pasts that link them.
Drawing strength from the animal instincts they're forced to rely on, the women go from hunted to hunters, along the way becoming unforgettable and boldly original literary heroines that readers will both relate to and root for.
The Natural Way of Things is a lucid and illusory fable and a brilliantly plotted novel of ideas that reminds us of mankind's own vast contradictions—the capacity for savagery, selfishness, resilience, and redemption all contained by a single, vulnerable body.
Winner
2016 Stella Prize
2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award in Fiction
An Australian Indie Best Fiction Book & Overall Book of the Year Winner
Finalist
2017 International Dublin Literary Award
2016 Voss Literary Prize
2016 Victorian Premier's Award
2016 The Miles Franklin Award
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Book
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781609453626
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APA Citation (style guide)
Wood, C. (2016). The natural way of things. New York, N.Y., Europa Editions.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Wood, Charlotte, 1965-. 2016. The Natural Way of Things. New York, N.Y., Europa Editions.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Wood, Charlotte, 1965-, The Natural Way of Things. New York, N.Y., Europa Editions, 2016.
MLA Citation (style guide)Wood, Charlotte. The Natural Way of Things. New York, N.Y., Europa Editions, 2016.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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