Book summaryThe Yandilli Trilogy consists of three novels: "The Second Bridegroom," "The Grisly Wife" and "Captivity Captive." "The Second Bridegroom" describes the adventures of the first white man to set foot in New South Wales. "The Grisly Wife" is a story of religious cults, fanaticism, and murder. "Captivity Captive" is based on an unsolved triple murder in Australia at the turn of the century. Media reviews"Rodney Hall writes with sensibility of a poet and a voice that is wholly his own. 'The Second Bridegroom' has a delicacy, combined with strength, that is rare in writing at any time." |
The Yandilli Trilogyby Rodney Hall
Book desription: N.Y.: Noonday, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995, 1995 Soft Cover. 8 1/4 x 5 1/2. ISBN:0-374-52439-4. 491 pp. A story of three generations of colonial Australia. The first story-The Second Bridegroom- "describes the strange, almost magical adventures of a n escaped convict - the first white man to set foot in New South Wales". The second- The Grisly Wife- takes place thirty years later and tells of ".fanaticism, religious cults, and murder." The third -Captivity Captive- centers around an unsolved murder of three Australians at the turn of the century. This large paperback has very minimal edgewear and a wee bit of scuffing to the back cover. No fo rmer owner's name. Text is very clean. Gently read. Overall cond: v. good..
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