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The Blue Mountains of Australia. Eureka Jones, a young pharmacist's assistant with 'historical eyes', falls in love with Harry Kitchings, a man who comes to town from some vague elsewhere to photograph clouds and the shadows they cast upon the land.
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- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Love and Vertigo : The Blue Mountains as Veranda in Australian Women's Writing
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 25 no. 2 2011; (p. 171-175) The Blue Mountains have often been used as a backdrop in Australian literature. Elizabeth Hicks looks at several of these texts by Australian women which were written during the fifteen years between 1987 and 2002, a period which loosley corresponds to theat of third-wave feminism.
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The Earthed Sacred : Literary Imagination and the Sacred in Contemporary Australian Fiction
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Intimate Horizons : The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature 2009; (p. 287-318) -
The Horizonal Sublime
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 19 no. 2 2005; (p. 141-151) Discusses 'the ways in which the horizonal sublime, itself a post-colonial transformation of the Romantic view of place, has been transformed in contemporary writing'. (p.151) -
First Voice : Delia Falconer Looks Back on the Writing of Her First Book
2005
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 12 November 2005; (p. 29) -
Falconer's Lure
2005
single work
biography
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 25 June 2005; (p. 35-39)
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Cloud is Cloud, or is It?
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , Spring vol. 58 no. 3 1998; (p. 255-261)
— Review of Swallowing Clouds 1997 single work novel ; The Service of Clouds 1997 single work novel -
Hydro Among the Clouds
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 18 October 1997; (p. wkd 8)
— Review of The Service of Clouds 1997 single work novel -
Head in the Clouds
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18 October 1997; (p. 13s)
— Review of The Service of Clouds 1997 single work novel -
Imagery as Abundant, as Ethereal as Clouds
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 1 November 1997; (p. 24)
— Review of The Service of Clouds 1997 single work novel -
First Fictions that Head Home and Away
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 16 November 1997; (p. 14)
— Review of The Service of Clouds 1997 single work novel ; Matilde Waltzing 1997 single work novel -
Falconer's Lure
2005
single work
biography
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 25 June 2005; (p. 35-39) -
First Voice : Delia Falconer Looks Back on the Writing of Her First Book
2005
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 12 November 2005; (p. 29) -
The Horizonal Sublime
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 19 no. 2 2005; (p. 141-151) Discusses 'the ways in which the horizonal sublime, itself a post-colonial transformation of the Romantic view of place, has been transformed in contemporary writing'. (p.151) -
The Earthed Sacred : Literary Imagination and the Sacred in Contemporary Australian Fiction
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Intimate Horizons : The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature 2009; (p. 287-318) -
Love and Vertigo : The Blue Mountains as Veranda in Australian Women's Writing
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 25 no. 2 2011; (p. 171-175) The Blue Mountains have often been used as a backdrop in Australian literature. Elizabeth Hicks looks at several of these texts by Australian women which were written during the fifteen years between 1987 and 2002, a period which loosley corresponds to theat of third-wave feminism.
Awards
- 1998 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
- 1998 joint winner The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist of the Year
Last amended 26 Jul 2017 11:22:29
Settings:
- Blue Mountains, Sydney, New South Wales,
- 1900s
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