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Issue Details: First known date: 1989... 1989 The House Tibet
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'After 13-year-old Vicky is raped by her straitlaced father, she and her younger brother with autism leave Adelaide for Queensland, where they meet up with a group of other runaways who lead them to an eccentric named Xam and a ramshackle house called Tibet. '(Nancy Pearl)

Notes

  • Dedication: To the memory of my grandmother, Ann and my mother, Iris.
  • Epigraph: I'm ceded - I've stopped being Theirs - / The name They dropped upon my face / With water, in the country church / Is finished using, now, / And they can put it with my Dolls, / My childhood, and the string of spools, / I've finished threading - too - Emily Dickinson

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia:

    Type of disability Autism.
    Type of character Primary.
    Point of view First person (not the disabled character).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Saint Paul, Minnesota,
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Graywolf Press ,       1991 .
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      Extent: 345p.
      Description: illus., port.
      ISBN: 155597144X
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin ,       1992 .
      Extent: 345p.
      ISBN: 0140168133 (pbk.)
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Works about this Work

Lost in Space : Gold Coast Characters Wandering Home(less) Kelly Palmer , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , December vol. 27 no. 2 2020; (p. 181-200)
The Beach as (Hu)man Limit in Gold Coast Narrative Fiction Kelly Palmer , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , June vol. 25 no. 1 2018; (p. 149-162)

'Gold Coast beaches oscillate in the cultural imagination between everyday reality and a tourist's paradise of ‘sun, surf and sex’ (Winchester and Everett 2000: 59). While these narratives of selfhood and becoming, egalitarianism and sexual liberation punctuate the media, Gold Coast literary fictions instead reveal the beach as a site of danger, wholly personifying the unknown. Within Amy Barker's Omega Park, Melissa Lucashenko's Steam Pigs, Georgia Savage's The House Tibet and Matthew Condon's Usher and A Night at the Pink Poodle, the beach is a ‘masculine’ space for testing the limit of the coastline and one's own capacity for survival. This article undertakes a close textual analysis of these novels and surveys other Gold Coast fictions alongside spatial analysis of the Gold Coast coastline. These fictions suggest that the Gold Coast is not simply a holiday world or ‘Crime Capital’ in the cultural imagination, but a mythic space with violent memories, opening out onto an infinite horizon of conflict and estrangement.'

Source: Abstract.
King Kong and Kung Fu: Asian and American Images in Georgia Savages Gold Coast Novels David Mesher , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Current Tensions : Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference : 6 - 11 July 1996 1996; (p. 13-22)
[Review] The House Tibet Terri-Ann White , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , April/May vol. 8 no. 4 & 5 1993; (p. 10)
— Review of The House Tibet Georgia Savage , 1989 single work novel
Scavenging a Triumph for Savage Penelope Nelson , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 23-24 August 1992; (p. 6)
— Review of The House Tibet Georgia Savage , 1989 single work novel
[Review] The House Tibet Terri-Ann White , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , April/May vol. 8 no. 4 & 5 1993; (p. 10)
— Review of The House Tibet Georgia Savage , 1989 single work novel
Three Recent Books "Universalize" Australian Life... John P. Turner , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 6 no. 2 1992; (p. 151-152)
— Review of Heart of Light Heather Grace , 1992 single work novel ; The House Tibet Georgia Savage , 1989 single work novel ; Australia Street : A Boy's Eye View of the 1920s and 1930s John Kingsmill , 1991 single work autobiography
An Old Journo Looks Back On His Life Veronica Sen , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 8 October 1989; (p. 18)
— Review of Pushed from the Wings : An Entertainment Ross Fitzgerald , 1986 single work novel ; The House Tibet Georgia Savage , 1989 single work novel ; We Have No Dreaming Ronald McKie , 1988 single work autobiography ; Up All Night Heather Falkner , 1989 selected work short story
Noble Intention, Honourable Failure Jacqueline Kent , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 11-12 November 1989; (p. 8)
— Review of The Initiate Justin D'Ath , 1989 single work novel ; The House Tibet Georgia Savage , 1989 single work novel
Romance is Strange, Incest Familiar Josephine Barcelon , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 116 1989; (p. 30-31)
— Review of North of the Moonlight Sonata Kerryn Goldsworthy , 1989 selected work short story ; The House Tibet Georgia Savage , 1989 single work novel
King Kong and Kung Fu: Asian and American Images in Georgia Savages Gold Coast Novels David Mesher , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Current Tensions : Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference : 6 - 11 July 1996 1996; (p. 13-22)
Teenage Stories of the Streets Agnes Nieuwenhuizen , 1989 single work column biography
— Appears in: The Age , 21 October 1989; (p. 10)
Keeping Faith with the Kids Giles Hugo (interviewer), 1990 single work interview
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , July no. 4 1990; (p. 11-15)
Gulf War Pushes Pens to Paper Robert Hefner , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 February 1991; (p. 18)
Shelf Life [9 December 1989] Cassandra Pybus , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 9 December 1989; (p. 9)
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Last amended 30 Apr 2018 11:15:30
Subjects:
Settings:
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    Tibet,
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    East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • c
    Vietnam,
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    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • Melbourne, Victoria,
  • Gold Coast, Queensland,
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