![]() First edition | |
Author | Melissa Lucashenko |
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Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Published | 1997 (University of Queensland Press) |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | 245 |
ISBN | 978-0-702-22935-0 |
OCLC | 1088063432 |
Steam Pigs is the 1997 debut novel by Melissa Lucashenko. It concerns Sue Wilson, a young Murri woman, who explores her Indigenous identity while living in Brisbane.
A review in The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education wrote that "Steam Pigs takes us into the world of today's "untermensch" ...",[1] and that it "..is a woman's book set in a very particular place and at a very particular time; but it confronts themes that are eternal and universal.".[1] A Lesbians on the Loose review called it "...as unsentimental as it is empathetic.".[2]
Steam Pigs has also been reviewed by the Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature,[3] Social Alternatives,[4] Australian Literary Studies,[5] Queensland Review,[6] and Ilha do Desterro.[7]
An excerpt appears in the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature.[8]