Feather Man

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Feather Man (2007) is a novel by Australian author Rhyll McMaster. It won the inaugural Barbara Jefferis Award for Best Novel in 2008.

Plot summary

This is a coming-of-age novel that follows the story of Sooky from a Brisbane suburb in the 1950s until her adulthood in London in the 1970s.

Reviews

Kerryn Goldsworthy in The Australian stated: "This novel is essentially a Bildungsroman, in which a young person grows up and learns about the ways of the world, but here it's enlivened by a genuine mystery, a slender but powerful narrative thread working away deep in the background of the story." She concluded: "Feather Man is not a pleasant or reassuring book, but it's written with great confidence and lyrical intensity, and most Australian readers will recognise in its pages something of their own time and place."[http://www.theaustralian.com.au/archive/news/feather-man/story-e6frg8no-1111113635576 "Feather Man by Rhyll McMaster" by Kerryn Goldsworthy, The Australian, 2 June 2007]

Awards and nominations

2007 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards – The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
2008 winner Barbara Jefferis Award[https://www.asauthors.org/barbara-jefferis-award-winner-2008-1 "Barbara Jefferis Award Winner 2008"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930171753/http://www.asauthors.org/barbara-jefferis-award-winner-2008-1 |date=30 September 2015 }}
2008 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards – UTS Award for New Writing

References

Category:2007 Australian novels

Category:Australian bildungsromans