| Description |
313 pages : portraits ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
My hard heart / Helen Garner -- Scars / Judy Duffy -- The plain clothes man / Lyn Hughes -- A lover of nature and music and art / Barbara Hanrahan -- Maralinga / Lallie Lennon -- Whatever it takes / Meredith Michie -- Brown and green giraffes / Olga Masters -- The game / Judith Woodfall -- The dugong / Judith Wright -- Incubus / Molly Guy -- My sister's funeral / Robin Sheiner -- The test is, if they drown / Kate Grenville -- Behind the glass / Sue Hancock -- Travelling / Joan London -- Hitler's driver / Carolyn van Langenberg -- Hibakusha's daughter / Fay Zwicky -- The midnight shift / Gillian Mears -- Marie and Suzie / Marianne Szymiczek -- Tongue / Janet Shaw -- Judith, 510 pieces / Judith Lukin -- Irene / Georgia Savage -- Vegetable soup / Carmell Killin -- Darlinghurst portrait / Vicki Viidikas -- Bella Donna / Mary Anne Baartz -- Buttercup and Wendy / Carmel Bird -- As time goes by -- Beverley Farmer -- In defence of Lord Byron / Hona Palmer -- Write me, son, write me / Thea Astley -- The mincer / Margaret Barbalet -- Scratch at the dark soil / Sue Chin -- My father's moon / Elizabeth Jolley |
| Summary |
Anthology of Australian fiction by women writers: includes "Maralinga" by Lallie Lennon ; "The Dugong" by Judith Wright ; & "My Sister's Funeral" by Robin Sheiner |
| Analysis |
Australia Social life and customs Fiction |
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Australian fiction Women authors |
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Short stories, Australian |
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Women Australia Fiction |
| Notes |
Maralinga is the oral history of Lallie Lennon as recorded by Chris Warren and Adele Graham at Port Augusta in November 1984 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Australian fiction -- Women authors.
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Short stories, Australian -- Women authors.
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Short stories, Australian -- 20th century.
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Short stories, Australian.
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Women -- Australia -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114320
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Author |
Harwood, Lyn.
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Pascoe, Bruce, 1947-
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White, Paula.
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| LC no. |
87183485 |
| ISBN |
0947087060 |
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