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Title A revealed life : Australian writers and their journeys in memoir / edited by Julianne Schultz ; [pieces from the] Griffith review
Published Sydney, N.S.W. : ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2007

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Description vii, 358 pages ; 24 cm
Series Griffith Review
Griffith Review
Contents Revealing a composite life / Julianne Schultz -- Story my mother tells me / Georgia Blain -- Journey to teh spare world / Anna Maria Dell'oso -- I hear with my eyes / Donna McDonald -- View from Munibung Hill / Andrew Belk -- Sensual degrees of separation / Jay Verney -- That prolific mother of strife / Michael McKernan -- Songs of childhood / Nick Earls -- Five acts of friendship / David Sornig -- Lying for Bruce / Oren Siedler -- From a moving car / Meera Atkinson -- Mending a broken link / Tara June Winch -- Amusing and stimulating small minds / Gideon Haigh -- Encounters with Mrs L, BA (Oxon) / Helen Elliott -- Just the way it is / Isabelle Reinecke -- Mac Attack / Sally Breen -- Confusions of an economist's daughter / Eve Vincent -- Mixed blessings / Creed O'Hanlon -- Casurina forest / Matthew Condon -- Confessions of a weather nut / Phil Brown -- Exotic at home / David Malouf -- Even further north / Murray Sayle -- Sydney and me / Lucy Lehmann -- Beyond exile / Christine Zorzi -- Gift of tongues / Susan Varga -- Ride in a taxi / Eva Sallis -- On becoming a Jew / Lee Kofman -- Living in a material world / Randa Abdel-Fattah -- Not quite white in the head / Melissa Lucashenko -- Black unlike me / Vincent Plush -- Return of the camel lady / Robyn Davidson -- We're all eccentrics here / Andrew McMillan -- In Pleasantville / Sylvia Lawson -- God's only excuse / Robyn Williams -- Growing things / Michael Wilding -- Ballad of Frank and Hazel / Robert Hillman -- Herself / Bille Brown -- All their families / Joanna Mendelssohn -- Ugly cousin's visit / Peter Meredith -- Mind, body and age / Donald Horne -- Small candle flames / Marion Halligan
Summary Join some of Australia's most exciting emerging and established writers as they reflect on their lives in an intimate anthology that explores the genre of memoir and life-writing. Georgia Blain, Natalie Corban, Donna McDonald, Andrew Belk, Nick Earls, Jay Verney, Michael McKernan and Oren Seidler ponder birth and childhood
Analysis Anthologies & collections
Australian miscellaneous writings
Biography & autobiography (Australia)
Notes "Join forty of Australia's best storytellers in A Revealed Life, an intimate anthology of the moments and events that have shaped their lives between the bookends of birth and death ... A Revealed Life showcases the very best contemporary memoir pieces as published in the literary and public affairs quarterly, Griffith Review."--Back cover
"Stories from David Malouf, Marion Halligan, Nick Earls, Matthew Condon, Eva Sallis, Anna Maria dell'Oso and many more of Australia's most established and promising writers"--Front cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Compilation copyright, Griffith REVIEW, Copyright in individual contrubutions remains with the authors
Subject Australian literature -- 21st century.
Authors, Australian -- 21st century -- Anecdotes.
Authors, Australian -- 21st century -- Biography.
Diaries.
Genre/Form Essays.
Autobiographies.
Anecdotes.
Author Schultz, Julianne, 1956-
Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
LC no. 2007405580
ISBN 9780733321238 (paperback)
Other Titles Australian writers and their journeys in memoir
OTHER TI Griffith review
Other Titles Australian writers and their journeys in memoir