Feather Man

{{Short description|Book by Rhyll McMaster}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}} {{infobox book |  | name = Feather Man | title_orig = | translator = | image = Feather Man.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Rhyll McMaster | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = Australia | language = English | series = | genre = Novel | publisher = Brandl and Schlesinger, Australia | release_date = 2007 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print Paperback | pages = 309 | isbn = 9781876040833 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}

'''''Feather Man''''' (2007) is a novel by Australian author Rhyll McMaster. It won the inaugural Barbara Jefferis Award for Best Novel in 2008.

==Plot summary==

This is a coming-of-age novel that follows the story of Sooky from a Brisbane suburb in the 1950s until her adulthood in London in the 1970s.

==Reviews==

Kerryn Goldsworthy in ''The Australian'' stated: "This novel is essentially a Bildungsroman, in which a young person grows up and learns about the ways of the world, but here it's enlivened by a genuine mystery, a slender but powerful narrative thread working away deep in the background of the story." She concluded: "''Feather Man'' is not a pleasant or reassuring book, but it's written with great confidence and lyrical intensity, and most Australian readers will recognise in its pages something of their own time and place."<ref>[http://www.theaustralian.com.au/archive/news/feather-man/story-e6frg8no-1111113635576 "''Feather Man'' by Rhyll McMaster" by Kerryn Goldsworthy, ''The Australian'', 2 June 2007]</ref>

==Awards and nominations==

* 2007 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards – The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction * 2008 winner Barbara Jefferis Award<ref>[https://www.asauthors.org/barbara-jefferis-award-winner-2008-1 "Barbara Jefferis Award Winner 2008"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930171753/http://www.asauthors.org/barbara-jefferis-award-winner-2008-1 |date=30 September 2015 }}</ref> * 2008 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards – UTS Award for New Writing

==References== {{reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Feather Man}} Category:2007 Australian novels Category:2007 English-language novels Category:Australian bildungsromans