Description |
vii, 358 pages ; 24 cm |
Series |
Griffith Review |
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Griffith Review
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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 |
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Australian miscellaneous writings |
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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 |
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"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.
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Authors, Australian -- 21st century -- Anecdotes.
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Authors, Australian -- 21st century -- Biography.
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Diaries.
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Genre/Form |
Essays.
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Autobiographies.
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Anecdotes.
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Author |
Schultz, Julianne, 1956-
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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LC no. |
2007405580 |
ISBN |
9780733321238 (paperback) |
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