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Dedication: For Helene
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Author's note: From the 1920s to the late 1950s, the Blind Concert travelled throughout the Australian State of Victoria, performing in country halls to raise funds for the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind. The Blind Concert flourished until the introduction of television into Australia in 1956. Thereafter its fortunes quickly dwindled, together with the whole vaudevillian tradition from which it sprang. This novel is a fiction based on one day in the life of the Blind Concert, in a tiny country town in northwest Victoria in late 1955.
Affiliation Notes
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Writing Disability in Australia:
Type of disability Blindness. Type of character Secondary - the group is the 'Blind Concert'. Point of view Third person.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Salt-Lakes and Swamps : Michael Meehan's Australian Environments
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Colloquy : Text Theory Critique , November no. 12 2006;'Although The Salt of Broken Tears and Stormy Weather are set in the Mallee, one depicts a world of heat, dust and salt, whereas the other is an account of one day in the small town of Towaninnie on which the rain is unceasing. A major symbol of the first novel is the salt-lake, and of the second, the fecund greenness of the rabbiter's swamp. This paper will examine the way these two disparate environments affect the novels' characters and influence the narrative, and what both novels suggest about Australians' relationship with their environment.'
Source: Colloquy : Text Theory Critique, no.12 November 2006 Sighted: 12/07/2007 -
Second Novels
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 219 2000; (p. 42-43)
— Review of Stormy Weather 2000 single work novel ; Tin Toys 2000 single work novel -
A Sparse Harshness
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , May vol. 5 no. 4 2000; (p. 22)
— Review of Stormy Weather 2000 single work novel ; Tin Toys 2000 single work novel -
Blind Bit of Notice
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 19 March 2000; (p. 7)
— Review of Stormy Weather 2000 single work novel ; Tin Toys 2000 single work novel -
Magical Moments in the Mallee
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 March 2000; (p. 22)
— Review of Stormy Weather 2000 single work novel
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Landscape Artistry
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 29 January 2000; (p. 21)
— Review of Stormy Weather 2000 single work novel -
Small-Town Dreams
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 19-20 February 2000; (p. 11)
— Review of Stormy Weather 2000 single work novel -
Blind Leading the Blind
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19 February 2000; (p. 12)
— Review of Stormy Weather 2000 single work novel -
Remembrance of Crimes Past
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 February vol. 118 no. 6212 2000; (p. 96-97)
— Review of Stormy Weather 2000 single work novel ; The Twelfth Dialogue 2000 single work novel ; If the Moon Smiled 2000 single work novel -
Better Than Wet and Wild
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 11 March 2000; (p. 8)
— Review of Stormy Weather 2000 single work novel -
Salt-Lakes and Swamps : Michael Meehan's Australian Environments
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Colloquy : Text Theory Critique , November no. 12 2006;'Although The Salt of Broken Tears and Stormy Weather are set in the Mallee, one depicts a world of heat, dust and salt, whereas the other is an account of one day in the small town of Towaninnie on which the rain is unceasing. A major symbol of the first novel is the salt-lake, and of the second, the fecund greenness of the rabbiter's swamp. This paper will examine the way these two disparate environments affect the novels' characters and influence the narrative, and what both novels suggest about Australians' relationship with their environment.'
Source: Colloquy : Text Theory Critique, no.12 November 2006 Sighted: 12/07/2007
- Rural,
- Victoria,
- Country towns,
- 1950s