Orpheus Lost
novel by Hospital
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Australian literature
- In Australian literature: Literature in the 21st century
…for the Plague (2003) and Orpheus Lost (2007). The Secret River (2005), another tale of the life of a British convict in Australia, earned Kate Grenville the 2006 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best book. Other Australians who published novels of note in the first decades of the 21st century were…
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discussed in biography
- In Janette Turner Hospital
…for the Plague (2003) and Orpheus Lost (2007) reflect the pervasive fear of terrorism following the September 11, 2001, attacks. In the mystery The Claimant (2014), Hospital explored issues of identity and social class. She published A Very Proper Death (1990) under the name Alex Juniper.
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