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Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 The World as a Clockface
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'"People are wrong about the South Pole being at the bottom of the world," said Holmann Schuyler. "If I drew you a map, it would look like the face of this clock, with the South Pole at the centre…"

'The people of Whalers Gate, on the Antipodean island of Esmania, claim that nothing has been the same since the turn of the century. They say that the wing of an Archangel has been seen over town, and young Sister Clemence has been beset by visions. It's been a hard winter, the women have gone sun-crazy, and the watercolour teacher, Lavinia Chomsky, has run off to sea with Captain Schuyler. Borne on a strange odyssey through mythical lands, they discover a world where time and place are distorted, so that what has been marginalised becomes central, what was once on the bottom now sits on top.

'The World as a Clockface is a captivating and poetic telling of a magical, wide-ranging story, from an exciting new voice in Australian fiction.'

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2001 .
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      Extent: 404p.
      ISBN: 0140292306

Works about this Work

Untitled Enza Gandolfo , 2001-2002 single work review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , December-January no. 4 2001-2002;

— Review of The World as a Clockface Philomena Van Rijswijk , 2001 single work novel
Finding Your Place Rosie Waitt , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Island , Winter no. 86 2001; (p. 110-112)

— Review of The World as a Clockface Philomena Van Rijswijk , 2001 single work novel
Untitled Elizabeth Dean , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , June no. 23 2001; (p. 66-67)

— Review of The World as a Clockface Philomena Van Rijswijk , 2001 single work novel
A Novel Born in a Tent -- and a Caravan Called Enid Elisabeth Wynhausen , 2001 single work biography
— Appears in: The Australian , 18 May 2001; (p. 13)
CoverNotes Mike Shuttleworth , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 27 May 2001; (p. 11)

— Review of The World as a Clockface Philomena Van Rijswijk , 2001 single work novel ; Leaving No Footprints Elaine Forrestal , 2001 single work children's fiction
Fantasy Island Peter Pierce , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13-15 April 2001; (p. 5)

— Review of The World as a Clockface Philomena Van Rijswijk , 2001 single work novel
Wannabes etc in Manhattan David Matthews , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 April 2001; (p. 15)

— Review of Two Shanes Lee Tulloch , 2001 single work novel ; The World as a Clockface Philomena Van Rijswijk , 2001 single work novel
Far Horizons Judith White , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 15 May vol. 119 no. 6274 2001; (p. 72-74)

— Review of What Falls Away Tegan Bennett Daylight , 2001 single work novel ; Beyond Duck River Angela Martin , 2001 single work novel ; The Dream Life of Harry Moon : A Novel Meg Stewart , 2001 single work novel ; Two Shanes Lee Tulloch , 2001 single work novel ; Days Like These Virginia Patricia Duigan , 2001 single work novel ; The World as a Clockface Philomena Van Rijswijk , 2001 single work novel ; Film Sean Condon , 2001 single work novel
Brilliant Bits and Glimpses of Reality Michael McGirr , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 19 May 2001; (p. 7)

— Review of The World as a Clockface Philomena Van Rijswijk , 2001 single work novel
CoverNotes Mike Shuttleworth , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 27 May 2001; (p. 11)

— Review of The World as a Clockface Philomena Van Rijswijk , 2001 single work novel ; Leaving No Footprints Elaine Forrestal , 2001 single work children's fiction
Author's Caravan of Dreams Jane Lovibond , 2001 single work column biography
— Appears in: The Saturday Mercury , 14 April 2001; (p. 10)
Magic moments flowing gently Christopher Bantick , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 6 May 2001; (p. 56)
A Novel Born in a Tent -- and a Caravan Called Enid Elisabeth Wynhausen , 2001 single work biography
— Appears in: The Australian , 18 May 2001; (p. 13)
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