Description |
xiv, 208 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Not drowning but waving -- Somewhere becoming rain -- Last will and testament -- Galway Kinnell's great poem -- The Australian poetic republic -- Your space or mine? -- Fanfare for a big yin -- Sarah Raphael -- We shall be re-released -- He that played the fool -- For Terence Kilmartin -- Pit-bull poodle -- The words count -- Serious brain operation -- Making programmes the world wants -- Preaching to the converted -- On the eve of disaster -- Chip, chip, chip -- Jet-lag in Tokyo -- The light well -- Bring me the sweat of Gabriela Sabatini -- Drama in the Soviet Union -- Go back to the opal sunset -- Budge up -- The artificial horizon -- Last night the sea dreamed it was Greta Scacchi -- What happened to Auden -- The incredible two-headed man -- Finally meeting Frankie -- Staying sane aloft -- L.A. lore -- News fantasy -- Sidney Carton's double life |
Analysis |
Australia |
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English prose |
Notes |
Includes index |
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Also issued online |
Subject |
James, Clive, 1939-
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Australian wit and humor.
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Australian essays.
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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Television programs -- Great Britain.
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LC no. |
93158063 |
ISBN |
0224036025 |
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