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Issue Details: First known date: 1983... 1983 The Bodysurfers
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Bodysurfers Robert Drewe , Darlinghurst : James Fraser Publishing , 1983 Z442291 1983 selected work short story

    'Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach – and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family – The Bodysurfers is an Australian classic. A short-story collection which has become a bestseller and been adapted for film, television, radio and the theatre, The Bodysurfers on its first publication marked a major change in Australian literature.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb (Penguin 2009 ed.)

         Darlinghurst : James Fraser Publishing , 1983     pg. 109-129
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Personal Best : Thirty Australian Authors Choose Their Best Short Stories Garry Disher , Sydney : Collins , 1989 Z468599 1989 anthology short story autobiography biography humour Sydney : Collins , 1989 pg. 268-285
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Making Connections : Six Australian Short Story Writers Brian Keyte (editor), Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1997 Z221043 1997 anthology short story criticism

    The stories chosen chart the emotions and the experiences of human beings living at particular times and in particular places. Collected as the landmark of a new millennium approached, the stories represent an interest at that time in past and future.

         Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1997     pg. 3-19
    Note: Brief explanation of story's meaning by Robert Drewe, p3.
    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2012 .
      person or book cover
      Courtesy of Penguin.
      Extent: 1v.p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date: 23 April 2012.
      ISBN: 9781742535784 (ebk.)
      Series: y separately published work icon Penguin Shorts Penguin (publisher), Camberwell : Penguin , 2012- Z1858634 2012 series - publisher short story prose correspondence autobiography

      'Penguin Shorts, Penguin's digital series of short works, offers readers engaging, entertaining non-fiction and fiction for approximately the same price as a cup of coffee, designed to be read over a long commute or during a lunch hour.

      'Shorts colours are inspired by the original Penguin Livery: Orange - Fiction, Dark blue - Memoir, Yellow - History, Pink - Cookery and Turquoise - Contemporary nonfiction.

      '"Our ambition in this digital publishing venture is not to experiment with quality but with form: our aim is to fill a current gap by bringing readers high-quality work that is too short for a book and too long for a magazine, so that you need never be without a something satisfying to read."' - Ben Ball, Publishing Director, Penguin General

      Source: Penguin website, http://www.penguin.com.au/
      Sighted: 07/05/2012
Subjects:
  • Coast,
  • Pearl Beach, Woy Woy area, Gosford, Central Coast, New South Wales,
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