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Issue Details: First known date: 1995... 1995 The Grass Sister
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'A woman sits at a desk in a farmhouse reading old letters. Africa floats in her consciousness like the Australian hills she can see from the window. Seven years ago, her younger sister disappeared near a waterfall on an African mountain range, and now, like a necromancer of memory, the woman begins conjuring up her secretive sister's past so that she can proceed with her own life.'

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Notes

  • Dedication: For Peter and Sheila.
  • Epigraph: ' I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. Lots of people say, 'My mother was insane- I say it and I mean it. Insane.' People laugh a lot at the memory of their mothers. I suppose it is funny.' Practicalities Marguerite Duras.

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portrait: Gillian Mears (jacket)
    • Milsons Point, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Random House , 1995 .
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      Extent: 342p.
      ISBN: 0091831210, 0091831296
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Untapped , 2021 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
      ISBN: 9781922730275
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Related Works

The Grass Sister Gillian Mears , 1994 extract (The Grass Sister)
— Appears in: Picador New Writing 2 1994; (p. 187-197)
Untitled Gillian Mears , 1995 extract (The Grass Sister)
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 176 1995; (p. 41)
Untitled Gillian Mears , 1996 extract novel (The Grass Sister)
— Appears in: The Age , 5 January 1996; (p. 8)
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Works about this Work

Old Copmanhurst Gillian Mears , 2012 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 71 no. 1 2012; (p. 104-115) The Best Australian Essays 2012 2012; (p. 123-135)
A Map of Mears Emma Sorensen (interviewer), 2002 single work interview
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 61 no. 3 2002; (p. 72-80)
The Unflinching Gaze: In Conversation with Gillian Mears Emma Sorensen (interviewer), 1999 single work interview
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 16 no. 2 2002; (p. 125-131)
The Missing, the Mourned Jennifer Moran , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 9 August 1997; (p. C10)
— Review of Highways to a War Christopher Koch , 1995 single work novel ; The Grass Sister Gillian Mears , 1995 single work novel
Gifted Voice Speaks for Itself Peter Craven , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 7 August 1996; (p. 38)
— Review of The Grass Sister Gillian Mears , 1995 single work novel
Sisters in Exile Julie Taylor , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , November vol. 7 no. 3-4 1995; (p. 40-41)
— Review of The Hotel Albatross Debra Adelaide , 1995 single work novel ; The Grass Sister Gillian Mears , 1995 single work novel
Sweeping Away the Dirt Rosemary Sorensen , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 2 December 1995; (p. wkd 8)
— Review of Mood Indigo Mandy Sayer , 1990 single work novel ; The Grass Sister Gillian Mears , 1995 single work novel
The Missing, the Mourned Jennifer Moran , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 9 August 1997; (p. C10)
— Review of Highways to a War Christopher Koch , 1995 single work novel ; The Grass Sister Gillian Mears , 1995 single work novel
Untitled Sally Madsen , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , August vol. 75 no. 1061 1995; (p. 31)
— Review of The Grass Sister Gillian Mears , 1995 single work novel
The Invisible Sister Remains a Puzzle Elizabeth Webby , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2 December 1995; (p. 12A)
— Review of The Grass Sister Gillian Mears , 1995 single work novel
The Unflinching Gaze: In Conversation with Gillian Mears Emma Sorensen (interviewer), 1999 single work interview
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 16 no. 2 2002; (p. 125-131)
Old Copmanhurst Gillian Mears , 2012 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 71 no. 1 2012; (p. 104-115) The Best Australian Essays 2012 2012; (p. 123-135)
Author's Award Susan Wyndham , 1996 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12 July 1996; (p. 13)
A Map of Mears Emma Sorensen (interviewer), 2002 single work interview
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 61 no. 3 2002; (p. 72-80)
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Awards

1997 joint winner The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist of the Year
1996 winner Commonwealth Writers Prize — South-East Asia and South Pacific Region — Best Book from the Region Award
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Subjects:
  • Bush,
  • c
    South Africa,
    c
    Southern Africa, Africa,
  • New South Wales,
  • c
    Zimbabwe,
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    Southern Africa, Africa,
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