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Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 Suck My Toes
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Notes

  • A book of interlinked short stories.
  • Dedication: This book is dedicated to the memory of my father, DGM.
  • Epigraph: How selfhood begins with a walking away, / And love is proved in the letting go: 'Walking Away', C. Day-Lewis.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,:McPhee Gribble , 1994 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Dirt, Fiona McGregor , single work short story (p. 1-16)
Who Let the Dog In?, Fiona McGregor , single work short story (p. 17-35)
Cappacino, Fiona McGregor , single work short story (p. 36-52)
Note: Edited and linked with the stories that form the rest of the collection.
Growth, Fiona McGregor , single work short story (p. 53-74)
Gold, Fiona McGregor , single work short story (p. 75-86)
Committed, Fiona McGregor , single work short story (p. 87-106)
Suck My Toes, Fiona McGregor , single work short story (p. 107-125)
Three, Fiona McGregor , single work short story (p. 126-136)
Blood, Fiona McGregor , single work short story (p. 137-197)
Move, Fiona McGregor , single work short story (p. 198-208)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Australia in Three Books Justine Hyde , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 77 no. 2 2018; (p. 21-24)

— Review of Loaded Christos Tsiolkas , 1995 single work novel ; Suck My Toes Fiona McGregor , 1994 selected work short story ; The Monkey's Mask Dorothy Porter , 1994 single work novel

'Literature is a reflection of the culture that spawns it. As a queer teenager growing up in Sydney’s outer western suburbs, my access to literature was limited to the books we had at home—airport novels—and the small collection at my high school library, mostly classics. So far as I knew, old white men wrote books; Ruth Park, Ursula Le Guin, Virginia Andrews and Danielle Steele were the exceptions.' (Introduction)

Dance of the Emotional Void Xavier Pons , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Messengers of Eros : Representations of Sex in Australian Writing 2009; (p. 119-138)

'In the literature of the last few decades depiction of sex have become commonplace. The old taboos which made any allusion to these matters something daring or transgressive have disappeared, to the extent that the reader is surprised, and perhaps a little disappointed, when he or she fails to find any sexual descriptions in the novel. It would appear that the characters have as few inhibitions when it comes to having sex as the writers when it comes to describing it.' (p. 119)

Reserviors of Desire Xavier Pons , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Messengers of Eros : Representations of Sex in Australian Writing 2009; (p. 11-37)
I am Not a Lesbian Fiona McGregor , 1996 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 55 no. 1 1996; (p. 31-40) Meanjin , Summer vol. 69 no. 4 2010; (p. 124-131)
Where Does the Misery Come From? : 'Clubs, Drugs, and Other Four Letter Words' : A Survey of 'Grunge Fiction' Margaret Henderson , Shane Rowlands , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , March vol. 8 no. 1 1996; (p. 3-5)
No-Fat Prose Kayt Arthur , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , December vol. 6 no. 4 1994; (p. 26-27)

— Review of Suck My Toes Fiona McGregor , 1994 selected work short story ; Nature Strip Leonie Stevens , 1994 single work novel
Short Stories, Tall Stories Susan Geason , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 19 February 1995; (p. 127)

— Review of Picador New Writing 2 1994 anthology poetry short story extract ; Suck My Toes Fiona McGregor , 1994 selected work short story
Straight for the Jugular, Straight for the Heart Veronica Sen , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 9 October 1994; (p. 20)

— Review of Solstice Matt Rubinstein , 1994 single work novel ; This Is for You Michael Wilding , 1994 selected work short story ; Night by Night Jane Messer , 1994 single work novel ; Suck My Toes Fiona McGregor , 1994 selected work short story ; The Messenger : Stories Helen Heritage , 1994 selected work short story
A First Novel, and Then Short Stories Rosemary Sorensen , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 10 September 1994; (p. 9)

— Review of The Powerful Owl Candida Baker , 1994 selected work short story ; Suck My Toes Fiona McGregor , 1994 selected work short story ; Truce Joanna Murray-Smith , 1994 single work novel
A Clever Observation of the Interweaving of Lives Gretchen Miller , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1 October 1994; (p. 12A)

— Review of Suck My Toes Fiona McGregor , 1994 selected work short story
Reserviors of Desire Xavier Pons , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Messengers of Eros : Representations of Sex in Australian Writing 2009; (p. 11-37)
Dance of the Emotional Void Xavier Pons , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Messengers of Eros : Representations of Sex in Australian Writing 2009; (p. 119-138)

'In the literature of the last few decades depiction of sex have become commonplace. The old taboos which made any allusion to these matters something daring or transgressive have disappeared, to the extent that the reader is surprised, and perhaps a little disappointed, when he or she fails to find any sexual descriptions in the novel. It would appear that the characters have as few inhibitions when it comes to having sex as the writers when it comes to describing it.' (p. 119)

Grunge Tales Take Out Top Story Prize Ian Hicks , 1995 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2 October 1995; (p. 12)
Where Does the Misery Come From? : 'Clubs, Drugs, and Other Four Letter Words' : A Survey of 'Grunge Fiction' Margaret Henderson , Shane Rowlands , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , March vol. 8 no. 1 1996; (p. 3-5)
I am Not a Lesbian Fiona McGregor , 1996 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 55 no. 1 1996; (p. 31-40) Meanjin , Summer vol. 69 no. 4 2010; (p. 124-131)
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