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'Every summer, the country families load the roof racks and motor south to the Bon Accord hotel. They find order here, beside the sea. Constancy in a changeable world.
'But this time ladders and workmen choke the foyer. There's foreign muck on the menu, posters proclaiming a Summer Festival of Writing. And child abductors are lurking on the sun blasted streets, in the tricky dunes. There's smoke in the hot inland winds. Everything's different this time. This time Marian Parr is not complete. She knows she should not have come.
'As love fractures, and old certainties crumble, Marian leans grieving against a balcony post, meddling with the cosmos.' (From the publisher's website.)
'But this time ladders and workmen choke the foyer. There's foreign muck on the menu, posters proclaiming a Summer Festival of Writing. And child abductors are lurking on the sun blasted streets, in the tricky dunes. There's smoke in the hot inland winds. Everything's different this time. This time Marian Parr is not complete. She knows she should not have come.
'As love fractures, and old certainties crumble, Marian leans grieving against a balcony post, meddling with the cosmos.' (From the publisher's website.)
Notes
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Dedication: For Camilla Webster.
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Author's note: Play Abandoned grew out of, and partly incorporates, two of the author's short stories, 'Trusthouse' in Muder at Home (1993) and 'The Other Side' in Australian Book Review.
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Book launched in Melbourne at the 2011 Melbourne Writers Festival.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Preaching to the Converted : Garry Disher's Play Abandoned
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Verity La , August 2012;
— Review of Play Abandoned 2011 single work novel -
Detective Novelist Mostly Keeps Detective Elements out of Domestic Comedy
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 26 no. 2 2012; (p. 274)
— Review of Play Abandoned 2011 single work novel -
Satisfying Bunch of Five
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 5 November 2011; (p. 24)
— Review of Fools’ Paradise : Life in an Altered State 2011 single work novel ; The Magic of It 2011 single work novel ; Play Abandoned 2011 single work novel ; The Colonial Queen 2011 single work novel ; Hergesheimer Hangs In 2011 single work novel -
In Short : Fiction
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 October 2011; (p. 34)
— Review of Play Abandoned 2011 single work novel ; Triptych : An Erotic Adventure 2011 selected work short story ; The Briny Cafe 2011 single work novel
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In Short : Fiction
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 October 2011; (p. 34)
— Review of Play Abandoned 2011 single work novel ; Triptych : An Erotic Adventure 2011 selected work short story ; The Briny Cafe 2011 single work novel -
Satisfying Bunch of Five
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 5 November 2011; (p. 24)
— Review of Fools’ Paradise : Life in an Altered State 2011 single work novel ; The Magic of It 2011 single work novel ; Play Abandoned 2011 single work novel ; The Colonial Queen 2011 single work novel ; Hergesheimer Hangs In 2011 single work novel -
Detective Novelist Mostly Keeps Detective Elements out of Domestic Comedy
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 26 no. 2 2012; (p. 274)
— Review of Play Abandoned 2011 single work novel -
Preaching to the Converted : Garry Disher's Play Abandoned
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Verity La , August 2012;
— Review of Play Abandoned 2011 single work novel
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