The dressmaker
Ham, Rosalie, 1955-2015
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Tilly Dunnage has come home to care for her mad old mother. She left the small Victorian town of Dungatar years before, and became an accomplished couturier in Paris. Now she earns her living making exquisite frocks for the people who drove her away when she was ten. Through the long Dungatar nights, she sits at her sewing machine, planning revenge. The Dressmaker is a modern Australian classic, much loved for its bittersweet humour. Set in the 1950s, its subjects include haute couture, love and hate, and a cast of engagingly eccentric characters. It is now a major motion picture, starring Kate Winslet and fine Australian actors including Judy Davis, Hugo Weaving, Liam Hemsworth and extras from the author's hometown of Jerilderie.
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Author:
Ham, Rosalie, 1955-, author
Imprint:
Potts Point, N.S.W. : Duffy and Snellgrove, 2015.Potts Point, N.S.W. Duffy and Snellgrove, 2015.©2000
Collation:
296 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
"Now a major motion picture"--Front cover."A bittersweet comedy about love, revenge and haute couture"--Front cover.
ISBN:
9780992334468 (paperback)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
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BRN:
8153