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Sally Morrison Sally Morrison i(A7457 works by)
Born: Established: 1946 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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1 4 y separately published work icon Window Gods : Truth Sleeps in the Seed Sally Morrison , Melbourne : Hardie Grant Egmont , 2014 7675340 2014 single work novel

'From the award-winning author of Mad Meg (winner of the 1995 Australian National Book Council's Banjo Award) comes Window Gods, a brilliant, incisive work of art that tackles the big issues on a broad canvas: juggling the responsibilities of family whilst carving out some space for the self; the responsibilities of womanhood; negotiating the role of the mother - bringing together the pieces of a fractured life into a productive whole. 56 year old Isobel is an artist struggling to engage deeply with her subject matter while the responsibilities of womanhood tug her in all directions - her ancient mother, her son and her late sister's daughter. When a law suit brought by her half sister and her husband's cancer diagnosis collide, Isobel is thrown from one crisis to the next. Then her son disappears in Afghanistan. In a situation resembling a global Middlemarch, Isobel sets off to find her son. The journey takes her away from her ailing mother to Afghanistan, where on her journey she finds courage in friendship and new horizons. Strengthened and empowered, Isobel comes home to the bushfire season and her mother's last, hilarious days as she prepares to meet her God.

'Window Gods is about family, inheritance and change. Making sense of where you are and making sense of life in the absence of a single authority, or any of the old gods. Full of astute observations about life, death and everything in between it's a wry, funny and intelligent look at modern life – in all its glory.' (Publication summary)

1 Sally Morrison Replies to Brenda Niall Sally Morrison , 2010 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 321 2010; (p. 5)
1 Latent Violence Sally Morrison , 2010 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 319 2010; (p. 4)
1 8 y separately published work icon After Fire : A Biography of Clifton Pugh Sally Morrison , Melbourne : Hardie Grant Books , 2009 Z1637089 2009 single work biography
1 6 y separately published work icon The Insatiable Desire of Injured Love Sally Morrison , Sydney : Hodder Headline Australia , 2002 Z980538 2002 single work novel
1 South of Holbrook Sally Morrison , 2001 single work autobiography
— Appears in: The Age , 6 January 2001; (p. 5)
1 What You Find and How You Look Sally Morrison , 2001 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 60 no. 4 2001; (p. 142-148)
1 The Rain i "You were so angry with death having", Sally Morrison , 2000 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Age , 14 October 2000; (p. 6)
1 Life's Anvil Sally Morrison , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , October vol. 4 no. 9 1999; (p. 18-19)

— Review of An Accommodating Spouse Elizabeth Jolley , 1999 single work novel
1 [Review] Hard Yards Sally Morrison , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , November vol. 4 no. 10 1999; (p. 24)

— Review of Hard Yards Melissa Lucashenko , 1999 single work novel
1 Country Strife Sally Morrison , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , August vol. 4 no. 7 1999; (p. 3,27)

— Review of The Idea of Perfection Kate Grenville , 1999 single work novel ; Drylands : A Book for the World's Last Reader Thea Astley , 1999 single work novel
1 Meditations in the Gardens of Little Rancor Sally Morrison , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 23 October 1999; (p. 8)

— Review of The Nature of Gardens 1999 anthology prose
1 Aristotle's Silverfish Sally Morrison , 1998 single work short story
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 57 no. 2 1998; (p. 418-423)
1 Leaving Paris Sally Morrison , 1998 single work short story
— Appears in: Certifiable Truths : Stories of Love and Madness 1998; (p. 155-169)
1 9 y separately published work icon Against Gravity Sally Morrison , Milsons Point : Random House , 1998 Z342433 1998 single work novel humour
1 [Review] Bulmurn : A Swan River Nyoongar : A Novel Sally Morrison , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 181 1996; (p. 44)

— Review of Bulmurn : A Swan River Nyoongar : A Novel Richard Wilkes , 1994 single work novel
1 Still of the River Sally Morrison , 1996 single work short story
— Appears in: Women Love Sex 1996; (p. 10-22)
1 [Review] The Long Prospect Sally Morrison , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 172 1995; (p. 49)

— Review of The Long Prospect Elizabeth Harrower , 1958 single work novel
1 Good Hands Sally Morrison , 1995 single work short story
— Appears in: The Age , 2 September 1995; (p. 5)
1 History and Politics in the Modern Novel Sally Morrison , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Island , Spring/Summer no. 60/61 1994-1995; (p. 133-135)
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