The Road From Coorain
  • Published: 31 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446485392
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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The Road From Coorain

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31 Aug 2011
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The inspiring and much loved memoir which follows Jill Ker Conway’s early years from her childhood in the Australian outback, to her time in Sydney and on to America as a young woman

The Road From Coorain is the beautifully written narrative of Jill Ker Conway's journey from girlhood on an isolated sheep-farm in the grasslands of Australia to her departure for America (and eventually the presidency of Smith College).
  • Published: 31 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446485392
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
Categories:

About the author

Jill Ker Conway

Jill Ker Conway was born in Hillston, NSW, Australia, graduated from the University of Sydney in 1958, and received her PhD from Harvard University in 1969. From 1964 to 1975 she taught at the University of Toronto and was Vice President there before serving for ten years as President of Smith College. In 1985 she became a visiting scholar and professor in MIT's Program in Science, Technology and Society.

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When Memory Speaks
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Praise for The Road From Coorain

The Road from Coorain is the work of a writer who relentlessly tugs at the cultural fences around her until they collapse, leaving her solitary under an immense Australian sky, enlarged to herself at least

New York Times Book Review

A small masterpiece of scene, memory and very stylish English. I've been several times to Australia; this book was the most rewarding of all

John Kenneth Galbraith

Immensely readable, elegant and well-crafted

Sydney Morning Herald

This book, an extraordinarily gripping and inspiring work, will take place as one of the few heroic stories of girlhood

Carolyn Heilbrun
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