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Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 The Snow Queen : A Novel
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'This beautiful fable-like story ranges from the rigid routines of the Imperial Dancers in pre-revolutionary Russia to exile in Australia at the outbreak of World War two. Russian-born Galina, who has danced for the tsar and for Diaghilev's famous ballet in Paris, operates a highly disciplined dance school - an outpost of Imperial Russia - in the dusty Adelaide of the 1940s and 1950s. From this humble base she goes on to form what becomes Australia's first professional ballet troupe. traveling the country it attracts a beautiful, talented young man. these two enact the story of the snow queen - the stern, beautiful woman who picks out a boy for herself, piercing his heart with a spike of ice, only to have her own pierced cruelly in return.' (Synopsis)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Flamingo , 2003 .
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      Extent: 245p.
      ISBN: 0732276985
    • Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Harper Perennial , 2004 .
      Extent: 277p.
      ISBN: 0732276993

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

Reading Groups and Creative Writing Courses : The Year's Work in Fiction Susan Lever , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 49 no. 2004; (p. 164-175)
Dance and Postcolonialism in Mardi McConnochie's The Snow Queen Melinda Rose Jewell , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 80 2004; (p. 77-86, notes 240-242)
Home Grown Heroes Peter Pierce , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 27 May vol. 121 no. 6374 2003; (p. 44)

— Review of Shanghai Dancing Brian Castro , 2003 single work novel ; The Pirate Queen Alan Gold , 2003 single work novel ; Fantastic Street David Kelly , 2003 single work novel ; The Snow Queen : A Novel Mardi McConnochie , 2003 single work novel ; Due Preparations for the Plague Janette Turner Hospital , 2003 single work novel
Follow-Up Novel a Killer Katharine England , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 10 May 2003; (p. 11)

— Review of The Hamilton Case Michelle De Kretser , 2003 single work novel ; The Snow Queen : A Novel Mardi McConnochie , 2003 single work novel
Not Helping the Cause Judith Armstrong , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 251 2003; (p. 51)

— Review of The Snow Queen : A Novel Mardi McConnochie , 2003 single work novel
The Fine Pointe of Fading Glory Brigid Delaney , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12-13 April 2003; (p. 13)

— Review of The Snow Queen : A Novel Mardi McConnochie , 2003 single work novel
Ballet Queens and Their Colourful Lives Michelle Griffin , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 18-19 April 2003; (p. 5)

— Review of The Snow Queen : A Novel Mardi McConnochie , 2003 single work novel
Snow Queen Not So Hot Katherine Lyall-Watson , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 3 May 2003; (p. 8)

— Review of The Snow Queen : A Novel Mardi McConnochie , 2003 single work novel
Not Helping the Cause Judith Armstrong , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 251 2003; (p. 51)

— Review of The Snow Queen : A Novel Mardi McConnochie , 2003 single work novel
Follow-Up Novel a Killer Katharine England , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 10 May 2003; (p. 11)

— Review of The Hamilton Case Michelle De Kretser , 2003 single work novel ; The Snow Queen : A Novel Mardi McConnochie , 2003 single work novel
Dance and Postcolonialism in Mardi McConnochie's The Snow Queen Melinda Rose Jewell , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 80 2004; (p. 77-86, notes 240-242)
Reading Groups and Creative Writing Courses : The Year's Work in Fiction Susan Lever , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 49 no. 2004; (p. 164-175)
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