Книга: Colleen McCullough «The Thorn Birds»

The Thorn Birds

This gripping and passionate tale of an Australian family is a natural for audio presentation, and Mary Woods gives a worthy rendering. The daunting variety of characters would challenge any reader, but after floundering briefly in the myriad distinctive voices, Woods hits her stride with distinction. As the plot takes the listener from the Australian outback to the Papal court, Woods brings to life characters ranging from loutish Luke O'Neill to single-minded Meggie Cleary to urbane Vittorio Scarbanza di Contini-Verchese, characters who speak not only with emotion, but also with believable accents. Woods creates an audio edition that is as addictive to listen to as the book is to read.

Издательство: "Avon" (1978)

ISBN: 0380018179

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Colleen McCullough

Colleen McCullough
Born 1 June 1937 (1937-06-01) (age 74)
Wellington, Australia
Occupation Novelist, Neuroscientist
Genres Fiction, Fantasy, Drama
Spouse(s) Ric Robinson

Colleen McCullough-Robinson,[1] AO, is an internationally acclaimed Australian author.

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Life

McCullough was born in Wellington, in outback central west New South Wales, in 1937 to James and Laurie McCullough.[2] Her mother was a New Zealander of part-Māori descent. During her childhood, her family moved around a great deal, and she was also "a voracious reader".[3] Her family eventually settled in Sydney, and she attended Holy Cross College [citation needed], having a strong interest in the humanities.

Before entering tertiary education, she previously earned a living as a teacher, librarian, and journalist.[3] In her first year of medical studies at the University of Sydney she suffered dermatitis from surgical soap and was told to abandon her dreams of becoming a medical doctor. Instead, she switched to neuroscience and worked in Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney.

In 1963 she moved for four years to the United Kingdom; at the Great Ormond Street hospital in London, she met the chairman of the neurology department at Yale University who offered her a research associate job at Yale. McCullough spent ten years from April 1967 to 1976 researching and teaching in the Department of Neurology at the Yale Medical School in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. It was while at Yale that her first two books were written.

The success of these books enabled her to give up her medical-scientific career and to try and "live on her own terms" [4] In the late 1970s, after stints in London and Connecticut, USA, she finally settled on the isolation of Norfolk Island in the Pacific, where she met her husband, Ric Robinson (then aged 33), whom she married on 13 April 1983 (she was aged 46).

In 1984 a portrait of Colleen McCullough, painted by Wesley Walters, was a finalist in the Archibald Prize. The prize is awarded for the "best portrait painting preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, Science or Politics".[5]

The depth of historical research for the novels on ancient Rome led to her being awarded a Doctor of Letters degree by Macquarie University in 1993.[6]

More recently, McCullough engendered criticism for controversial statements made during the Pitcairn sexual assault trial of 2004. McCullough asserted that the rapes committed by the defendants (all but one of whom were ultimately found guilty of at least some of the charges they faced) were "indigenous customs" and that it is "Polynesian to break your girls in at 12."[7]

In 2005, McCullough briefly appeared alongside family members in the 6 min short comedy Popcorn People.[8]

McCullough is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She now lives in Sydney.

Her 2008 novel The Independence of Miss Mary Bennett engendered controversy with her reworking of characters in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Susannah Fullerton, the president of the Jane Austen Society of Australia, said she "shuddered" that Elizabeth Bennet was rewritten as weak, and Mr Darcy savage. "She is one of the strongest, liveliest heroines in literature … [and] Darcy's generosity of spirit and nobility of character make her fall in love with him – why should those essential traits in both of them change in 20 years?" [9]

Writing history

Novels

  • Tim (1974). Made into a film in 1979
  • The Thorn Birds (1977)
  • An Indecent Obsession (1981)
  • A Creed for the Third Millennium (1985)
  • The Ladies of Missalonghi (1987)
  • The Song of Troy (1998)
  • Morgan's Run (2000)
  • The Touch (2003)
  • Angel Puss (2004)
  • On, Off (2006)
  • The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet (2008)
  • "Too Many Murders" (2010)

Biography

  • The Courage and the Will: The Life of Roden Cutler VC (1999)

Masters of Rome Series

  1. The First Man in Rome (1990)
  2. The Grass Crown (1991)
  3. Fortune's Favorites (1993)
  4. Caesar's Women (1996)
  5. Caesar (1997)
  6. The October Horse (2002)
  7. Antony and Cleopatra (2007)

Carmine Delmonico series

  1. On, Off (2006)
  2. Too Many Murders (December 2009)
  3. Naked Cruelty (2010)

Screen adaptations

Notes

  1. ^ About Colleen McCullough http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/colleen-mccullough/ Retrieved 2009-08-15
  2. ^ Enough Rope - Transcript of McCullough interview with Andrew Denton (24 September 2007)
  3. ^ a b Mary Jean DeMarr, Colleen McCullough: a critical companion, Page 2
  4. ^ Mary Jean DeMarr, Colleen McCullough: a critical companion, Page 3
  5. ^ "Archibald Prize 07". Art Gallery NSW. http://www.thearchibaldprize.com.au/finalists. Retrieved 2007-07-19. 
  6. ^ ABC NSW http://www.abc.net.au/nsw/stories/s376367.htm Retrieved 2009-08-15
  7. ^ "Pitcairn men were following custom: McCullouch."
  8. ^ Popcorn People (2005) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480570/ Retrieved 2009-08-15
  9. ^ http://www.stevedow.com.au/Default.aspx?id=360

References

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