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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Lives Drawn Out to Sea
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'A Sea-Chase, Roger McDonald's tenth novel, opens in late 1970s Australia on Judy, "a young teacher sobbing at her desk . . . after [her] rioting class fled for the day" (3). In the midst of this low point, though, something serendipitous happens: Ken Redlynch, a fellow teacher and acting inspector, walks in. While comforting her, he learns that she is the daughter of Elizabeth Darke, a famous geneticist and leading figure in Scientists Against Nuclear Testing (SANT). Politically minded himself, Ken takes an interest in Judy, and through him she gets introduced to a "skinny blue-eyed wildwood creature" (22) named Wes Bannister, who lives aboard Ken's boat, the Rattler. Wes and Ken are passionate sailors, and Judy, through her relationship with Wes and friendship with Ken, discovers her own love for "a breath of wind on a section of taut canvas" (56).' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Antipodes vol. 33 no. 1 June 2019 20294120 2019 periodical issue

    'This current issue of Antipodes fittingly represents the work of the three editors who have guided the journal's production in the past year or so. Volume 32 (2018), a double issue, marked the official end of Nicholas Birns's eighteen-year tenure as editor of Antipodes, and as that volume came to production, Belinda Wheeler lent a diligent hand and a keen eye to the publication of the double issue. An essay or two approved by Nicholas has made its way into the current issue (33.1), with Belinda acquiring many of the essays in this issue. Belinda also provided the editorial guidance for the special section on the work of Alexis Wright. It is from the capable hands of Nicholas and Belinda that I take the reins of the journal Antipodes, with a well-mapped path behind and an open road ahead.' (Brenda Machosky, Editorial introduction)

    2019
    pg. 173-174
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