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Robert Drewe Robert Drewe i(A696 works by) (a.k.a. Robert Duncan Drewe)
Born: Established: 1943 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Male
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1 The True Colour of the Sea Robert Drewe , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: The True Colour of the Sea 2018; (p. 183-210)
1 Imaginary Islands Robert Drewe , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: The True Colour of the Sea 2018; (p. 161-182)
1 Spotting Killer Whales Robert Drewe , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: The True Colour of the Sea 2018; (p. 149-160)
1 The SeaDream Emails The Sea Dream Emails Robert Drewe , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: The True Colour of the Sea 2018; (p. 109-129)
1 Lavender Bay Noir Robert Drewe , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: The True Colour of the Sea 2018; (p. 83-108)
1 Varadero Robert Drewe , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: The True Colour of the Sea 2018; (p. 67-82)
1 Black Lake and Sugarcane Road Robert Drewe , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: The True Colour of the Sea 2018; (p. 37-46)
1 Another Word for Cannibals Robert Drewe , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: The True Colour of the Sea 2018; (p. 15-36)
1 Dr Pacific Robert Drewe , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: The True Colour of the Sea 2018; (p. 1-14)
1 2 y separately published work icon The True Colour of the Sea Robert Drewe , Camberwell : Hamish Hamilton , 2018 14212049 2018 selected work short story

'The long-awaited new collection of short stories from Australia’s master of the short-story genre.

'An artist marooned on a remote island in the Arafura Sea contemplates his survival chances. He understands his desperate plight and the ocean’s unrelenting power. But what is its true colour?

'A beguiling young woman nurses a baby by a lake while hiding brutal scars. Uneasy descendants of a cannibal victim visit the Pacific island of their ancestor’s murder. A Caribbean cruise of elderly tourists faces life with wicked optimism.

'Witty, clever, ever touching and always inventive, the eleven stories in The True Colour of the Sea take us to many varied coasts: whether a tense Christmas holiday apartment overlooking the Indian Ocean or the shabby glamour of a Cuban resort hotel.

'Relationships might be frayed, savaged, regretted or celebrated, but here there is always the life-force of the ocean – seducing, threatening, inspiring.

'In The True Colour of the Sea, Robert Drewe – Australia’s master of the short story form – makes a gift of stories that tackle the big themes of life: love, loss, desire, family, ageing, humanity and the life of art. '  (Publication summary)

1 Notes from the Studio Robert Drewe , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Monthly , November no. 139 2017; (p. 59)

'The article discusses the interpretation of sexual relationship between male and female characters in the film adaptation of the novel "Tracks," by Robyn Davidson.'  (Publication abstract)

1 4 y separately published work icon Whipbird Robert Drewe , Melbourne : Penguin , 2017 11520334 2017 single work novel

'Kungadgee, Victoria, Australia. A weekend in late November, 2014. At Hugh and Christine Cleary’s new vineyard, Whipbird, six generations of the Cleary family are coming together from far and wide to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the arrival of their ancestor Conor Cleary from Ireland. Hugh has been meticulously planning the event for months – a chance to proudly showcase Whipbird to the extended clan. Some of these family members know each other; some don’t. 

'As the wine flows, it promises to be an eventful couple of days.

'Comic, topical, honest, sharply intelligent, and, above all, sympathetic, Robert Drewe’s exhilarating new novel tells a classic Australian family saga as it has never been told before.' (Publication summary)

1 The Bathplug Dilemma Robert Drewe , 2016 single work prose
— Appears in: The Monthly , June no. 123 2016; (p. 46-47)
1 The Beach of Green Capsicums Robert Drewe , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: Good Reading , November 2015; (p. 60-61)
1 1 y separately published work icon The Beach : An Australian Passion Robert Drewe , Canberra : National Library of Australia , 2015 9104604 2015 selected work prose

'From an Indigenous food source to a hedonistic playground, the beach has long been a national obsession. Robert Drewe’s lyrical examination of Australian beach culture combines imagery from some of Australia’s most celebrated photographers with his personal anecdotes of a favourite boat, a capsicum-strewn beach, a summer holiday with teenagers and an unwelcome great white. Drewe looks at the sunny, salty sexiness of the beach that first enticed the crusading Mr William Gocher into the ocean at Manley in 1903, defying authorities in his neck-to-knee bathing costume. We’ve come a long way from sunbathing in stockings and pantaloons to the unabashed display of sun-kissed bodies of all shapes and sizes at any beach in the country today. But the beach also has a dark side as a place of tragedy, violence and danger, a place where sharks attack prone surfers and prime ministers disappear.

'This is a book for the weary wage-slave who has felt the revitalising power of plunging into the water on a summer evening or the seachanger dodging Dobermans and stingers on a morning beach walk. And it’s a book for Australians dreaming of the beach—that is, those of us not there right now.' (Publication summary)

1 Another Speaker Robert Drewe , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: The Monthly , September no. 115 2015; (p. 42-43)
1 A Family Story with Extra Bite Robert Drewe , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 1 August 2015; (p. 26) The Sydney Morning Herald , 1 August 2015; (p. 26)

— Review of Everything Is Teeth Evie Wyld , Joe Summer , 2015 selected work graphic novel autobiography
1 Robert Drewe: So It Goes : Fangs Bared (1977) Robert Drewe , 2014 single work
— Appears in: Journal of Poetics Research , September 2014 no. 1 2014;
1 Old Rags and Mojitos : A Varadero Notebook Robert Drewe , 2014 single work prose
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 59 no. 2 2014; (p. 305-310)
1 Book Bite : Swimming to the Moon Robert Drewe , 2014 extract column
— Appears in: Good Reading , November 2014; (p. 36-37)
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