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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Atlantic March 1978 Z1612712 1978 periodical issue 1978 pg. 110-114, 116.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Dislocations Janette Turner Hospital , Toronto : McClelland and Stewart , 1986 Z1037396 1986 selected work short story

    'Reaching across continents, these allusive, richly textured stories are unified by moments of dislocation in which certainties are eclipsed by unfamiliar terrain. A last, transforming embrace between Indian lovers heralds their separate journeys into arranged marriages; an elderly woman discovers a kinship with her neighbour through their mutual isolation; a young woman's beauty is ravaged by fire; a schoolteacher, fettered by responsibility, learns from her brash students during a Queensland summer heady with the smell of sugar cane; a decaying amaryllis plant mirrors the pain of the artist who obsessively sketches it, and a woman devastated by her friend's death, is shocked by her own secret exultation in living.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb (Virago ed.)

    St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1987
    pg. 57-68
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Collected Stories 1970-1995 Janette Turner Hospital , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1995 Z201489 1995 selected work short story St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1995 pg. 45-55
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