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Julienne Van Loon Julienne Van Loon i(A5507 works by)
Born: Established: 1970 Taree, Taree area, Greater Taree, Mid North Coast, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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Details of Works Taught

Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon Harmless Julienne Van Loon , North Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2013 Z1932699 2013 single work novel thriller (taught in 1 units)

'Full of suspense, Harmless, is the tightly woven story of eight year old Amanda, whose father is in prison, and Rattuwat, a Thai man burying his daughter in a strange land.

'Abandoning their broken-down car on the way to the prison's visiting hour, Amanda and Rattuwat venture into the trackless scrub of Australia's outer suburbs. As the day heats up, the sense of menace intensifies and each of them enters the no-man's-land between safety and peril. With the right kind of mindfulness, William Blake tells us, one can behold infinity in a grain of sand.

'In the grainy bush tracks of the outer eastern suburbs of Perth, the whole canvas of contemporary Australian life - the ethnic diversity, its violence, its growing divisions of class and economic status, its convoluted history of linkage with South East Asia - is made vivid and visible in this remarkable novella.' (Publisher's blurb)

Contemporary Australian Literature Edith Cowan University 2014 (Semester 2)
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