AustLit
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.
Latest Issues
AbstractHistoryArchive Description
'Vera has cabin fever. Confined with her thoughts in the concrete tower of a New York hotel, she is haunted by her mother's reminders of what she should have been, and the desperate choices she faced as an unprotected single mother.'
Source: Publisher's blurb (Modern Classics ed.).
Notes
-
Sound recordings, braille version and discussion notes available.
-
Book 2 of the My Father's Moon Trilogy.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
-
Friendship in a Time of Loneliness
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 24 no. 1 2009; (p. 97-110) The essay 'explores the ways in which Jolley's fictions are simultaneously motivated by a longing for consummate love - (hetero)sexual, intellectual, spiritual, all at once - and shaped by a gathering understanding of the impossibility of that desire as a way of being in the world' (98-99). -
On My Bedside Table
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 3 November 2007; (p. 42)
— Review of Dreams of Speaking 2006 single work novel ; Cabin Fever 1990 single work novel -
A Scattered Catalogue of Consolation
2006
single work
autobiography
— Appears in: Learning to Dance : Elizabeth Jolley : Her Life and Work 2006; (p. 17-53) -
Babies Eat Their Lace: Elizabeth Jolley and the Slaughter of Decorum
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: After Electra : Rage, Grief and Hope in Twentieth-Century Fiction 2002; (p. 118-136, notes 194-195) -
Elizabeth Jolley
1998
single work
criticism
— Appears in: An Eloquent Sufficiency : 50 Writers Talk about Life and Literature Over Lunch 1998; (p. 22-27)
-
Summer Reading
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , December and vol. 6 no. 1 January vol. 5 no. 12 1991; (p. 10-11)
— Review of Wild Card : An Autobiography, 1923-1958 1990 single work autobiography ; The Quest for Grace 1990 single work autobiography ; Cabin Fever 1990 single work novel ; The Bluebird Cafe 1990 single work novel ; Florid States 1990 single work novel ; God in the Afternoon : Selected Poetry and Fiction of Griffith Watkins 1990 selected work poetry short story ; Miss Gymkhana, R. G. Menzies and Me : Small Town Life in the Fifties 1990 single work autobiography -
Untitled
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , December 1991 and vol. 6 no. 12 , January vol. 7 no. 1 1992; (p. 20)
— Review of Cabin Fever 1990 single work novel -
On My Bedside Table
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 3 November 2007; (p. 42)
— Review of Dreams of Speaking 2006 single work novel ; Cabin Fever 1990 single work novel -
Extra to Real Life
1998
single work
criticism
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 200 1998; (p. 45-46)
— Review of My Father's Moon 1989 single work novel ; The Georges' Wife 1993 single work novel ; Cabin Fever 1990 single work novel -
[Review] Wintering
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Span , May no. 33 1992; (p. 177-181)
— Review of Homecoming : Three Novellas 1989 selected work short story ; Wintering 1990 single work novel ; Cabin Fever 1990 single work novel ; The Tax Inspector 1991 single work novel -
Babies Eat Their Lace: Elizabeth Jolley and the Slaughter of Decorum
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: After Electra : Rage, Grief and Hope in Twentieth-Century Fiction 2002; (p. 118-136, notes 194-195) -
Motherhood
1992
single work
prose
— Appears in: Learning to Dance : Elizabeth Jolley : Her Life and Work 2006; (p. 149-156) -
A Scattered Catalogue of Consolation
2006
single work
autobiography
— Appears in: Learning to Dance : Elizabeth Jolley : Her Life and Work 2006; (p. 17-53) -
Friendship in a Time of Loneliness
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 24 no. 1 2009; (p. 97-110) The essay 'explores the ways in which Jolley's fictions are simultaneously motivated by a longing for consummate love - (hetero)sexual, intellectual, spiritual, all at once - and shaped by a gathering understanding of the impossibility of that desire as a way of being in the world' (98-99). -
Writing Fever
Tim Lloyd
(interviewer),
1990
single work
biography
interview
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 6 October 1990; (p. 14)
Awards
- 1991 shortlisted NBC Banjo Awards — NBC Banjo Award for Fiction
- 1991 winner ASAL Awards — ALS Gold Medal
- 1990 winner FAW ANA Literature Award
Last amended 25 Nov 2019 16:14:39
Settings:
-
New York (City),
New York (State),
cUnited States of America (USA),cAmericas,
-
cUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,
Export this record