Heartland

TitleHeartland
Year for Search1989
AuthorsCorbett, Nancy [J.](b. 1944)
Date Published1989
PublisherBlack Swan
Place PublishedMoorebank, NSW, Australia
KeywordsAustralian author, Female author
Annotation

A post-catastrophe future in which men and women live separately and both have developed eutopian societies. Both are fairly simple societies; the women are strongly in touch with nature; the men are concerned with avoiding the mistakes of the past by passing on knowledge of the mistakes that brought about the catastrophe. The novel concerns the problems that develop when the system of artificial insemination begins to fail. Reconciliation.

Holding Institutions

CU-LA, PSt

Author Note

Australian female author (b. 1944) who was born in Canada.

Full Text

1989 Corbett, Nancy [J.] (b. 1944). Heartland. Moorebank, NSW, Australia: Black Swan. CU-LA, PSt

A post-catastrophe future in which men and women live separately and both have developed eutopian societies. Both are fairly simple societies; the women are strongly in touch with nature; the men are concerned with avoiding the mistakes of the past by passing on knowledge of the mistakes that brought about the catastrophe. The novel concerns the problems that develop when the system of artificial insemination begins to fail. Reconciliation. Australian female author born in Canada.