The watch tower /
Harrower, Elizabeth.
The watch tower / Elizabeth Harrower ; [introduced by Joan London]. - 1st ed. - Melbourne : Text Publishing, 2012. - xiii, 335 p. ; 20 cm. - Text classics . - Text classics. .
First published by Macmillan 1966.
"Breaking their poses like trees snapping branches, the women urgently regarded each other, cleared away all signs of work in an instant, examined their souls for defects, in a sense crossed themselves, and waited." After Laura and Clare are abandoned by their mother, Felix is there to help, even to marry Laura if she will have him. Little by little the two sisters grow complicit with his obsessions, his cruelty, his need to control. Set in the leafy northern suburbs of Sydney during the 1940s, The Watch Tower is a novel of relentless and acute psychological power.
"Winner of the Patrick White Award 1996"--Cover.
9781921922428 (pbk.) $12.95
Level 10, 22 William St, Melbourne VIC 3000, website: http://www.textpublishing.com.au, email: books@textpublishing.com.au
Sisters--Fiction.
Australian fiction.
Australia--Fiction.
Australian
Classical fiction.
A823.3
The watch tower / Elizabeth Harrower ; [introduced by Joan London]. - 1st ed. - Melbourne : Text Publishing, 2012. - xiii, 335 p. ; 20 cm. - Text classics . - Text classics. .
First published by Macmillan 1966.
"Breaking their poses like trees snapping branches, the women urgently regarded each other, cleared away all signs of work in an instant, examined their souls for defects, in a sense crossed themselves, and waited." After Laura and Clare are abandoned by their mother, Felix is there to help, even to marry Laura if she will have him. Little by little the two sisters grow complicit with his obsessions, his cruelty, his need to control. Set in the leafy northern suburbs of Sydney during the 1940s, The Watch Tower is a novel of relentless and acute psychological power.
"Winner of the Patrick White Award 1996"--Cover.
9781921922428 (pbk.) $12.95
Level 10, 22 William St, Melbourne VIC 3000, website: http://www.textpublishing.com.au, email: books@textpublishing.com.au
Sisters--Fiction.
Australian fiction.
Australia--Fiction.
Australian
Classical fiction.
A823.3
