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y separately published work icon The Fringe Dwellers single work   novel  
Issue Details: First known date: 1961... 1961 The Fringe Dwellers
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The Fringe Dwellers is set in a remote area of Western Australia. It is the story of Noonah and Trilby, two  sisters of Aboriginal decent, who live in a family camp on the fringe of  society.  

 

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon The Fringe Dwellers Bruce Beresford , Rhoisin Beresford , ( dir. Bruce Beresford ) Australia : Fringe Dwellers Productions , 1986 Z901268 1986 single work film/TV

The Fringe Dwellers tells the story of the cultural conflict experienced by Trilby, a young Aboriginal woman, and her desire to get out of the fringe camp in which she lives and to enter mainstream society.

Notes

  • Adapted for the 1986 film The Fringe Dwellers directed by Bruce Beresford
  • Dedication: To my friends, with love.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne City, Melbourne, Victoria,:Text Publishing , 2012 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Introduction, Melissa Lucashenko , essay

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Heinemann ,
      1961 .
      image of person or book cover 7671470709047557185.jpg
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      Extent: 295p.
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Sun Books , 1966 .
      image of person or book cover 8344924240592636776.png
      This image has been sourced from online.
      Extent: 256p.
      Reprinted: 1979
      Note/s:
      • First published: London: Heinmann 1961.
      ISBN: 0725100176 (pbk)
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Sun Books , 1980 .
      image of person or book cover 2197104661511358780.png
      This image has been sourced from online.
      Extent: 256 pp.
      Note/s:
      • First published London: Heinemann 1961.
      ISBN: 0725100176
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Great Australian Writers [Vol. 1] London : Octopus Publishing Group , 1987 Z1291016 1987 anthology novel autobiography London : Octopus Publishing Group , 1987
    • Melbourne City, Melbourne, Victoria,: Text Publishing , 2012 .
      image of person or book cover 3409369299988758671.jpg
      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: xiv 373pp.
      Note/s:
      • First published in 1961.
      • Available on-line.
      ISBN: 9781922079541 (pbk), 1922079545
      Series: y separately published work icon Text Classics Text Publishing (publisher), Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2012- Z1851461 2012 series - publisher novel 'Great books by great Australian storytellers.' (Text website.)

Other Formats

  • Braille.
  • Sound recording.
  • Large print.

Works about this Work

Conversation, Collaboration, Assimilation : Nene Gare's The Fringe Dwellers Rick de Vos , Simon Forrest , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 225-232)
Introduction Melissa Lucashenko , 2012 essay
— Appears in: The Fringe Dwellers 2012;
An Unassuming Radical Christobel Mattingley , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: National Library of Australia News , April vol. 16 no. 7 2006; (p. 19-21)
Beyond the Fringe? Richard Guilliatt , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 19 January 2002; (p. 29)
Nene Gare Giulia Giuffre (interviewer), 1990 single work interview biography
— Appears in: A Writing Life : Interviews with Australian Women Writers 1990; (p. 14-25)
The Fringe People Ray Williams , 1962 single work review
— Appears in: Realist Writer , November no. 10 1962; (p. 21)

— Review of The Fringe Dwellers Nene Gare , 1961 single work novel
Untitled 1961 single work review
— Appears in: The Cairns Post , 28 October 1961; (p. 8)

— Review of The Fringe Dwellers Nene Gare , 1961 single work novel
[Review] Low Company Dorothy Auchterlonie , 1962 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , Autumn vol. 6 no. 2 1962; (p. 83-84,86)

— Review of La Bora Philip Jones , 1961 single work novel ; Daughter of Silence Morris West , 1961 single work novel ; Low Company Hugh Atkinson , 1961 single work novel ; The Fringe Dwellers Nene Gare , 1961 single work novel
Recent Novels John McLaren , 1962 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 23 1962; (p. 55-57)

— Review of La Bora Philip Jones , 1961 single work novel ; The Scarlet Blossom 'Craig Stirling' , 1961 single work novel ; The Dyehouse Mena Calthorpe , 1961 single work novel ; Low Company Hugh Atkinson , 1961 single work novel ; The Sun on the Stubble Colin Thiele , 1961 single work children's fiction ; The Fringe Dwellers Nene Gare , 1961 single work novel ; A Stranger and Afraid George Turner , 1961 single work novel ; If Golde Rust H. H. Wilson , 1961 single work novel
Search for Status Thelma Forshaw , 1961 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 2 December vol. 82 no. 4268 1961; (p. 35-36)

— Review of The Fringe Dwellers Nene Gare , 1961 single work novel ; Pilotage Nevil Shute , 1961 single work novel ; Stephen Morris Nevil Shute , 1961 selected work novel
A Balance of Humour and Truthfulness Marion Campbell , 1986 single work column
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , August vol. 1 no. 8 1986; (p. 4-6)
Keneally and Gare: Boundary Riders and Fringedwellers Kay Ferres , 1986 single work criticism
— Appears in: LiNQ , vol. 14 no. 2 1986; (p. 48-56)
An Unassuming Radical Christobel Mattingley , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: National Library of Australia News , April vol. 16 no. 7 2006; (p. 19-21)
Thoughts on Aboriginal Literature Jim Kable , 1985 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Aboriginal Child at School , February/March vol. 13 no. 1 1985; (p. 31-52)
Australian Woman Novelists of the 1970s: A Survey Margaret Smith , 1985 single work criticism
— Appears in: Gender, Politics and Fiction : Twentieth Century Australian Women's Novels 1985; (p. 200-221)
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