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Bad art mother / Edwina Preston.

Bad art mother / Edwina Preston.
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Record Number 21912
ISBN 9781743059012 (paperback)
Item Number 21018541
Location F PRE
Author Preston, Edwina, (author).
Title Bad art mother / Edwina Preston.
Edition 1.
Published Mile End, South Australia : Wakefield Press, 2022.
©2022.
Collation 317 pages ; 21 cm.
Content types text
Carrier type volume
Summary Note Good mothers are expected to be selfless. Artists are seen as selfish. So what does this mean for a mother with artistic ambitions? Enter: frustrated poet Veda Gray, who is offered a Faustian bargain when a wealthy childless couple, the Parishes, invite her to exchange her young son Owen for time to write. Veda's story unfolds as an adult Owen reflects on his boyhood in the Melbourne suburbs, and in the vibrant bohemian inner-city art world where his restaurateur father was a king. Meanwhile, the talented women in his orbit - Veda, Mrs Parish, wife of an influential poet, muralist and restaurant worker Rosa - push against gender expectations to be recognised as legitimate artists, by their intimates and the wider world. And almost-aunt Ornella, who declares herself without an artistic bone in her body, is perhaps the closest thing Owen has to a traditional mother. As Owen is encouraged to 'be a man', he loses something of himself, too.
Target Audience Tertiary/Undergraduate, General.
Awards Note The Stella Prize (AUS) (Shortlist - 2023)
NSW Premier's Literary Award - Christina Stead Prize for Fiction (AUS) (Shortlist - 2023)
Subject Feminists -- Fiction
Australian fiction
Women -- Fiction
Women artists -- Fiction
Family life Fiction
Motherhood -- Fiction
Mother and child -- Fiction
Ambition -- Fiction
Families -- Fiction
Sex role -- Fiction
Women poets -- Fiction
Geographic Name Melbourne (Vic.) -- Fiction
Victoria -- Melbourne
SUBJECT AUS fiction (Australia)
Australian
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