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'The narrator, Leon, is summoned back from a year in England to Australia, to the country house of his few remaining relatives. There he is drawn into a world that hints at drug running, at smuggling, through a woman, Annette, whose exact relationship to the household is vague. Intercut with Leon’s narrative are snatches of the life of an exploring nineteenth-century forebear, Tom.'
Source: Australian Book Review.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Time, Memory, Genealogy : Peter Cowan's Sense of the Past
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Peter Cowan : New Critical Essays 1992; (p. 109-122) -
The Unfurnished Fiction of Willa Cather and Peter Cowan
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Peter Cowan : New Critical Essays 1992; (p. 61-69) -
Epic and Tragic Journeys : Peter Cowan's Biographical Explorations
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Peter Cowan : New Critical Essays 1992; (p. 43-59) -
Untitled
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 54)
— Review of The Color of the Sky : A Novel 1986 single work novel -
Of Books and Covers : Peter Cowan
1988
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , August vol. 3 no. 8 1988; (p. 10-12) Overland , May no. 114 1989; (p. 58-62)
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Writer's Landscape of a Lifetime
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , March 1986; (p. 21)
— Review of A Window in Mrs X's Place : Selected Short Stories 1986 selected work short story ; The Color of the Sky : A Novel 1986 single work novel -
On the Bleaker Side of Love
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 10 June vol. 108 no. 5522 1986; (p. 107,109)
— Review of A Window in Mrs X's Place : Selected Short Stories 1986 selected work short story ; The Color of the Sky : A Novel 1986 single work novel -
A Short Novel, But Sharply In Focus
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 25 October 1986; (p. 15)
— Review of The Color of the Sky : A Novel 1986 single work novel -
Bush Novelists Up the Creek
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 29-30 March 1986; (p. 12)
— Review of The Color of the Sky : A Novel 1986 single work novel ; The Floor of Heaven 1986 single work novel ; Rain in the Distance 1986 single work novel -
Guessing the Colour of the Sky : Blue?
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 85 1986; (p. 29-30)
— Review of The Color of the Sky : A Novel 1986 single work novel -
Award Winning Writers
1986
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column
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , July vol. 1 no. 7 1986; (p. 3) -
Practitioner of Silence
1986
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column
biography
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , March vol. 1 no. 3 1986; (p. 4-5) -
Silences and Spaces : Peter Cowan's Place in the Landscape of Australian Literature
1987
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Overland , September no. 108 1987; (p. 59-64) Peter Cowan : New Critical Essays 1992; (p. 9-19) -
Of Books and Covers : Peter Cowan
1988
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , August vol. 3 no. 8 1988; (p. 10-12) Overland , May no. 114 1989; (p. 58-62) -
Epic and Tragic Journeys : Peter Cowan's Biographical Explorations
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Peter Cowan : New Critical Essays 1992; (p. 43-59)
Awards
- 1987 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
- 1986 winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Fiction
- 1986 winner Western Australia Week Literary Award
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Subjects:
- Australian Outback, Central Australia,
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