Title The man on the mantelpiece : a memoir / Marion May Campbell

Published Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2018 ©2018

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
MELB	994.405092 Campbe Cam/Mot		AVAILABLE
ADPML SPDU	994.405092 Cam/Mot		LIB USE ONLY

Description 232 pages : portrait ; 20 cm regular print Summary During a 1952 electric storm off Wattamolla NSW a waterspout drew in the CSIRO Cloud Physics Dakota, atomising all those aboard, including the writer's father. Or did it? When his living body has disappeared, what to make of the uniformed man on the mantelpiece? Just as the waterspout gathers up living creatures and broken things to transport them elsewhere, this memoir dreams its way into the fragments of his life, along with the queer fall-out in its wake. When her grief-stricken mother deifies the disappeared, the daughter strives to become him. Sometimes it seems that fateful scenarios, including Cold War conspiracies and ill-conceived scientific projects, converge on the man on the mantelpiece; but at times of grace he steps down joyfully to resume the dance with the living Analysis Australian Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Subject Campbell, Federick William -- Death and burial -- Fiction Campbell, Federick William -- Death and burial Campbell, Marion, 1948- Campbell, Marion, 1948- -- Fiction. C.S.I.R.O. Radiophysics Laboratory. C.S.I.R.O. Radiophysics Laboratory. Radiophysics Laboratory -- Fiction. Air pilots -- Australia -- Fiction. Air pilots -- Australia -- Biography. Aircraft accidents -- Australia. Aircraft accidents -- Australia -- Fiction. Biographical fiction, Australian. Children of air pilots -- Australia -- Biography. Children of air pilots -- Australia -- Fiction. Fathers and daughters -- Australia -- Biography. Fathers and daughters -- Australia -- Fiction. Rain-making -- Australia -- Fiction. Rain-making -- Australia. Genre/Form Biographical fiction. Literature. Biographies. Fiction. ISBN 1760800031 9781760800031 (paperback)

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