by Jill Ker Conway · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749398941
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«The Road from Coorain» is the autobiography of Jill Ker Conway, published by Vintage in paperback (238 pages, in English).
Jill Ker Conway recalls her childhood on a remote sheep farm in the New South Wales outback in the 1940s and 1950s, amid the beauty of the Australian landscape and the harshness of drought. After family tragedies and the move to Sydney, she recounts her intellectual formation and the path that took her to the United States.
The work was originally published in 1989 and this edition dates from 1992. It won the Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
A title for book clubs and for readers of memoirs, Australian history and coming-of-age stories.
