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'The balloon had drifted over a wooded ridge and into their valley. The farmworkers, straightening up one by one, shaded their eyes against the dazzle of the sun on crimson and blue silk. The thing hung in the sky - sumptuous, menacing - like a sign from God or the devil. Then there was thunder and fire, and a man plummeting earthwards. It was the 14th of July. The world was about to change.
'The timeless story of Sophie nursing the ambition to create a repeat-flowering crimson rose, the like of which has never been seen in Europe. Then Stephen, the American balloonist falling out of the sky and into Sophie's life - a love story that unfolds against the sensuous green landscape of Gascony. It is the 14th of July, the year is 1789 and revolution hangs in the air closing in on the private world of the Saint-Pierre family and threatening to change their world forever.'
– Publisher's website
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First Voice : Michelle de Kretser Reflects on the Inspiration Behind Her First Novel
2005
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— Appears in: The Age , 17 December 2005; (p. A2) -
The Beauty and the Menace
Barry Scott
(interviewer),
2004
single work
interview
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 63 no. 2 2004; (p. 97-107) Barry Scott talks to Michelle De Kretser about Sri Lanka and the writing of fiction. -
Haunted by History's Ghosts
2003
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 19 April 2003; (p. 1a-2a) -
Australia, South Asia, and Self-Inflicted Otherness
2000
single work
criticism
— Appears in: CRNLE Journal 2000; (p. 164-170) The author examines Asia-Australia relationships between 1997 and 2000, noting changing political attitudes of the times. She compares Asian attitudes towards Australia at the time of the East Timor crisis with those observed in the fiction of the Asian diaspora in Australia. -
Evocative and Gently Haunting
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: CRNLE Journal 2000; (p. 96-97)
— Review of The Rose Grower 1999 single work novel
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Sex and Other Catastrophes
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin (The Book Bulletin) , 23 November vol. 117 no. 6201 1999; (p. 8-9)
— Review of Neap Tide 1999 single work novel ; Modern Men Don't Shift Fridges 1999 single work novel ; The Rose Grower 1999 single work novel ; Pieces of a Girl 1999 single work novel ; Miles Walker, You're Dead 1999 single work novel ; Innocents 1999 single work novel -
On Tumult's Periphery
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 9-10 October 1999; (p. 10)
— Review of The Rose Grower 1999 single work novel -
Roses and Revolution
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 23 October 1999; (p. 9)
— Review of The Rose Grower 1999 single work novel -
The Garden to the Guillotine
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 30 October 1999; (p. 10)
— Review of The Rose Grower 1999 single work novel ; Flipside 1999 single work novel -
Blossoming First Novels
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 13 November 1999; (p. 22)
— Review of The Rose Grower 1999 single work novel -
Haunted by History's Ghosts
2003
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 19 April 2003; (p. 1a-2a) -
The Beauty and the Menace
Barry Scott
(interviewer),
2004
single work
interview
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 63 no. 2 2004; (p. 97-107) Barry Scott talks to Michelle De Kretser about Sri Lanka and the writing of fiction. -
First Voice : Michelle de Kretser Reflects on the Inspiration Behind Her First Novel
2005
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 17 December 2005; (p. A2) -
Novelist in Bloom
1999
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 9-10 October 1999; (p. 10) -
Australia, South Asia, and Self-Inflicted Otherness
2000
single work
criticism
— Appears in: CRNLE Journal 2000; (p. 164-170) The author examines Asia-Australia relationships between 1997 and 2000, noting changing political attitudes of the times. She compares Asian attitudes towards Australia at the time of the East Timor crisis with those observed in the fiction of the Asian diaspora in Australia.
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cFrance,cWestern Europe, Europe,
- 1790s