{"product_id":"9781921961779","title":"Bush Studies","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBush Studies\u003c\/i\u003e is famous for its stark realism, for not romanticising bush life, instead showing all its bleakness and harshness. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Economic of style, influenced by the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, Barbara Baynton's short-story collection  presents the Australian bush as dangerous and isolating for the women who inhabit it.  \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eThe terror Baynton evokes,' Helen Garner writes in her introduction to the book, 'is elemental, sexual, unabashedly female.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The stories:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A Dreamer \u003cbr\u003e Squeaker's Mate \u003cbr\u003e Scrammy 'And \u003cbr\u003e Billy Skywonkie \u003cbr\u003e Bush Church \u003cbr\u003e The Chosen Vessel \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Barbara Baynton\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Scone, New South Wales. In the 1890s Baynton began writing short stories, poetry and articles for the \u003ci\u003eBulletin\u003c\/i\u003e. Her first tale, 'The Tramp', was published in 1896. After failing to find an Australian publisher for her collection of short stories, she visited London and in 1902 Duckworth published \u003ci\u003eBush Studies\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eHuman Toll\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel, appeared in 1907. A successful businesswoman and renowned socialite, Baynton spent her later year in Melbourne, dying in 1929.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'So precise, so complete, with such insight into detail and such force of statement, it ranks with the masterpieces of realism in any language.' \u003ci\u003eBulletin\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e textpublishing.com.au","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183003713776,"sku":"9781921961779","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781921961779_p0.jpg?v=1763632696","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781921961779","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}