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'Essays discuss the author's native island of Tasmania, his experiences in London in the 1950s and California in the early 1960s, and his reflections on other writers, including F. Scott Fitzgerald and Carlos Castaneda' (Publication summary)
Contents
* Contents derived from the
London,
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England,c
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United Kingdom (UK),c
Western Europe,
Europe,:Chatto and Windus
, 1987 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.-
Crossing the Gap : Asia and the Australian Imagination,
single work
criticism
'In 1955, a year after our graduation from university, m y friend Robert Brain and I set out for Europe. It was the traditional pilgrimage, in that era, for young Australians. W e were returning to a home we had never seen, to the cultural Blessed Isles. The numbers who made this grand tour were very small, then. There was no economy jet travel; w e embarked on a cheap Italian ship that would take five weeks to reach Genoa. Nor had the general phenomenon of Australian and Western youth touring the world on the cheap really begun. The simplest way I can convey this is to say that when we reached Europe and began hitch-hiking we had no trouble in being picked up, because drivers found us a novelty. They also thought us adventurous; and as w e passed farm gates, walking the highways of Italy and Germany, people would ask us in for a glass of wine. That was still the era when Greek peasants, finding foreigners passing their fields, would come out bringing gifts of food — the traditional hospitality to the wayfarer. They don't do it now; the hippies came through in the 1960s like a plague of locusts, living off that hospitality.' (Introduction)
- Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner, single work autobiography (p. 26-47)
- California Dreaming, Hermann Hesse and the Great God Pot, single work prose (p. 48-70)
- The Last Novelist, single work prose (p. 71-83)
- Return to Hobart Town, single work prose (p. 84-90)
- The Lost Hemisphere, single work prose (p. 91-105)
- A Tasmanian Tone, single work prose (p. 106-118)
- Mysteries, single work prose (p. 119-142)
- The Novel as Narrative Poem : A Personal View, single work prose (p. 143-164)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
- Large print.
- Braille.
Works about this Work
-
Paperback
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 23 September 2000; (p. 7)
— Review of Crossing the Gap : A Novelist's Essays 1987 selected work essay criticism autobiography ; Nightjar 2000 selected work short story ; Articles of Light : Reflections on Lowlifes, Ratbags and Angels 2000 selected work prose -
Paperbacks
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 8 January 1994; (p. 6)
— Review of Scribbling in the Dark 1985 selected work prose ; Crossing the Gap : A Novelist's Essays 1987 selected work essay criticism autobiography -
[Review] Reading Tim Winton [and] Crossing the Gap
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , July vol. 6 no. 2 1994; (p. 95-96)
— Review of Reading Tim Winton 1993 anthology criticism interview ; Crossing the Gap : A Novelist's Essays 1987 selected work essay criticism autobiography -
Tilting at Faery Windmills
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Summer no. 57 1993; (p. 74-76)
— Review of Crossing the Gap : A Novelist's Essays 1987 selected work essay criticism autobiography -
Homing In
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 7-8 August 1993; (p. rev 6)
— Review of Crossing the Gap : A Novelist's Essays 1987 selected work essay criticism autobiography
-
Paperback
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 23 September 2000; (p. 7)
— Review of Crossing the Gap : A Novelist's Essays 1987 selected work essay criticism autobiography ; Nightjar 2000 selected work short story ; Articles of Light : Reflections on Lowlifes, Ratbags and Angels 2000 selected work prose -
[Review] Reading Tim Winton [and] Crossing the Gap
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , July vol. 6 no. 2 1994; (p. 95-96)
— Review of Reading Tim Winton 1993 anthology criticism interview ; Crossing the Gap : A Novelist's Essays 1987 selected work essay criticism autobiography -
Paperbacks
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 8 January 1994; (p. 6)
— Review of Scribbling in the Dark 1985 selected work prose ; Crossing the Gap : A Novelist's Essays 1987 selected work essay criticism autobiography -
Traveller's Trails
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: The Book Magazine , August-September vol. 1 no. 2 1987; (p. 28)
— Review of Room Service : Comic Writings of Frank Moorhouse 1985 selected work short story ; Crossing the Gap : A Novelist's Essays 1987 selected work essay criticism autobiography -
Beyond the Second-Hand
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 31 July 1987; (p. 823)
— Review of Crossing the Gap : A Novelist's Essays 1987 selected work essay criticism autobiography -
Christopher Koch
Candida Baker
(interviewer),
1989
single work
biography
interview
— Appears in: Yacker 3 : Australian Writers Talk About Their Work 1989; (p. 182-211) -
`Home Ground, Foreign Territory': Living with Australia
1991
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 15 no. 2 1991; (p. 45-54) -
Christopher Comes Home for Lunch
Michael Dargaville
(interviewer),
1986
single work
criticism
interview
biography
— Appears in: The Mercury , 15 November 1986; (p. 15)
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