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Issue Details: First known date: 1955... 1955 The Mirage
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  • 'Stained Pieces', the original manuscript version of this novel, received a favourable commendation in the 1946 Sydney Morning Herald Literary Competition.

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Language: Hungarian

Works about this Work

Narrating the Nowhere People : F. B. Vickers's The Mirage and "Half-Caste" Aboriginals Rich Pascal , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 27 no. 1 2013; (p. 49-57)

'Pascal talks about F. B. Vickers's The Mirage and "Half-Caste" Aboriginals. F. B. Vickers's The Mirage is a novel that has not been well remembered. Reviewers of the mid 1950s who noticed it were admiring, especially those who had themselves written works focusing upon Aboriginal Australians. Roland Robinson wrote that it was "important both as a work of art and as a plea for understanding and reform" (24); Gavin Casey's Sunday Telegraph review declared "its appearance would be a major literary event in any month in any country" (26 June 1955). In private letters to Vickers, prominent writers were equally effusive.' (Editor's abstract)

Protest and Apology : Western Australia J. J. Healy , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Literature and the Aborigine in Australia 1770- 1975 1989; (p. 208-240)
"Write a Short Story" He Said F. B. Vickers , 1975 single work column
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 61 1975; (p. 43-46)
[Review] The Mirage [et al] Sidney J. Baker , 1959 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21 February 1959; (p. 19)

— Review of The Mirage F. B. Vickers , 1955 single work novel ; The Aunt's Story Patrick White , 1948 single work novel ; You Can't See Round Corners Jon Cleary , 1947 single work novel
Untitled D. E. H. , 1955 single work review
— Appears in: The Winthrop Review , Michaelmas vol. 3 no. 2 1955; (p. 40-42)

— Review of The Mirage F. B. Vickers , 1955 single work novel
Untitled D. E. H. , 1955 single work review
— Appears in: The Winthrop Review , Michaelmas vol. 3 no. 2 1955; (p. 40-42)

— Review of The Mirage F. B. Vickers , 1955 single work novel
Untitled Brian Elliott , 1955 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 14 no. 4 1955; (p. 577-582)

— Review of The Sun in Exile : A Novel Dymphna Cusack , 1955 single work novel ; The Shiralee D'Arcy Niland , 1955 single work novel ; White Topee Eve Langley , 1954 single work novel ; Keep Him My Country Mary Durack , 1955 single work novel ; The Mudflat Million Ronald Campbell , S. H. Courtier , 1955 single work novel ; The Careless People 1955 single work novel ; The Fury E. V. Timms , 1954 single work novel ; Sowers of the Wind : A Novel of the Occupation of Japan T. A. G. Hungerford , 1954 single work novel ; Pink Flannel Ruth Park , 1955 single work novel ; The Mirage F. B. Vickers , 1955 single work novel ; Undercurrent Barbara Jefferis , 1953 single work novel ; The Long Beat Home Peter Gladwin , 1954 single work novel
The North West - Background to a Book Don McLeod , 1955 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 4 1955; (p. 11)

— Review of The Mirage F. B. Vickers , 1955 single work novel
Tragedy of the Aborigines Roland Robinson , 1955 single work review
— Appears in: Voice , December vol. 4 no. 1955; (p. 24)

— Review of The Mirage F. B. Vickers , 1955 single work novel
Half-Caste Aborigines 1955 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 29 June vol. 76 no. 3933 1955; (p. 10)

— Review of The Mirage F. B. Vickers , 1955 single work novel
Protest and Apology : Western Australia J. J. Healy , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Literature and the Aborigine in Australia 1770- 1975 1989; (p. 208-240)
"Write a Short Story" He Said F. B. Vickers , 1975 single work column
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 61 1975; (p. 43-46)
Narrating the Nowhere People : F. B. Vickers's The Mirage and "Half-Caste" Aboriginals Rich Pascal , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 27 no. 1 2013; (p. 49-57)

'Pascal talks about F. B. Vickers's The Mirage and "Half-Caste" Aboriginals. F. B. Vickers's The Mirage is a novel that has not been well remembered. Reviewers of the mid 1950s who noticed it were admiring, especially those who had themselves written works focusing upon Aboriginal Australians. Roland Robinson wrote that it was "important both as a work of art and as a plea for understanding and reform" (24); Gavin Casey's Sunday Telegraph review declared "its appearance would be a major literary event in any month in any country" (26 June 1955). In private letters to Vickers, prominent writers were equally effusive.' (Editor's abstract)

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