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Hotel Sorrento Paperback – 1 March 2002

by Hannie Rayson (Author)
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Hilary lives in seaside Sorrento with her father and sixteen-year-old son; Pippa is visiting from New York and Meg returns from England with her English husband.

Three sisters, reunited after ten years in different worlds, again feel the constraints of family life. It is Meg's semi-autobiographical novel, recently short-listed for the Booker prize, which overshadows their homecoming.

1991 AWGIE Award ' Stage Award

1990 NSW Premier's Literary Award ' Play Award

1990 Green Room Award ' Best Play

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  1. Print length
    112 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Currency Press
  4. Publication date
    1 March 2002
  5. Dimensions
    13.69 x 0.76 x 21.01 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0868196819
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0868196817
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About the Author

HANNIE RAYSON has established a reputation for topical, complex dramas written with wit and humour. A graduate of Melbourne University and the Victorian College of the Arts, she has an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from La Trobe University and is a Fellow of the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne. Her plays have been extensively performed around Australia and internationally. They include Please Return to Sender, Mary, Leave It Till Monday, Room to Move, Hotel Sorrento, Falling From Grace, Competitive Tenderness, Life After George, Inheritance and Two Brothers. She has been awarded two Australian Writers' Guild Awards, four Helpmann Awards, two NSW Premier's Literary Awards and a Victorian Premier's Literary Award as well as the Age Performing Arts Award. She also wrote Scenes from a Separation with Andrew Bovell. For television she has written 'Sloth' (ABC, Seven Deadly Sins) and co-written two episodes of SeaChange (ABC/Artists Services). A feature film of Hotel Sorrento, produced in 1995, was nominated for ten Australian Film Institute Awards. In 1999 she received the Magazine Publishers' Society of Australia's Columnist of the Year Award for her regular contributions to HQ magazine. Rayson made playwriting history when Life After George was the first play to be nominated for the Miles Franklin Award. In 2006 she was nominated for the Melbourne Prize for Literature, a prize for a Victoria-based writer whose body of published or produced work has made an outstanding contribution to Australian literature and to cultural and intellectual life.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Currency Press; 4th UK ed. edition (1 March 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 112 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0868196819
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0868196817
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.69 x 0.76 x 21.01 cm
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