Our Sunshine
| Author | Robert Drewe |
|---|---|
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan, Australia |
Publication date | 1991 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 189 |
| ISBN | 0330273264 |
| Preceded by | Fortune |
| Followed by | The Drowner |
Our Sunshine is a 1991 novel about Ned Kelly by Australian writer Robert Drewe.
It later served as a source of information for the 2003 film Ned Kelly, directed by Gregor Jordan and starring Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush and Naomi Watts.
Notes
- Dedication: For James Fraser and Ray Lawrence
- Epigraph: Myth is gossip grown old. - Stanislaw Lec
- Epigraph: He stole my left ear. I took his right eye. He concealed fourteen of my teeth. I sewed up his lips. He stewed my behind. I turned his heart inside-out. He ate my liver. I drank his blood. War! - Elias Canetti
- Epigraph: No one is himself... - Paul Bowles
Reviews
“This is a mesmerizing novel.” Times Literary Supplement
“Robert Drewe’s revisionary – and visionary – novel makes your heart thud.” Time Out, London
“This book is addictive. Drewe’s language is, as ever, astonishing, with every one of his sentences containing a shiver of exactness and immediacy.” New Statesman
“A tour de force…A model of style and passion.” Thomas Shapcott, The Age
“Drewe has performed a remarkable feat of literary sleight-of-hand. . . Our Sunshine is a marvellous book.” Andrew Reimer, Sydney Morning Herald
Awards and nominations
- 1992 shortlisted NBC Banjo Awards — NBC Banjo Award for Fiction
- 1992 shortlisted Miles Franklin Award