The Impersonators
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AuthorJessica Anderson
Coverartist'Dreaming in the Street' by Charles Blackman, 1960
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
.jpg) First edition | |
| Author | Jessica Anderson |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | 'Dreaming in the Street' by Charles Blackman, 1960 |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Macmillan, Australia |
Publication date | 1980 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | Paperback |
| Pages | 252pp |
| ISBN | 0-333-29925-6 |
| OCLC | 8219612 |
| 823 19 | |
| LC Class | PR9619.3.A57 I5 |
| Preceded by | Tirra Lirra by the River |
| Followed by | Taking Shelter |
The Impersonators (1980) is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel[1] by Australian author Jessica Anderson. It was published in the United States under the alternative title The Only Daughter.
The novel won both the Miles Franklin Award in 1980, and the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in 1981.
The novel details Sylvia Foley's return to Australia after having lived in England for twenty years. Having come to the conclusion that worldly possessions and marriage are the main stumbling blocks to achieving freedom, Sylvia returns to find each of her Australian relatives bound by both constraints, making them "impersonators."