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Glenda Adams Glenda Adams i(A30872 works by)
Born: Established: 30 Dec 1939 Ryde, Ryde - Gladesville - Hunters Hill area, Northwest Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: 11 Jul 2007 Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Female
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Details of Works Taught

Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon Dancing on Coral Glenda Adams , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1987 Z355529 1987 single work novel (taught in 1 units)

'‘She’s going now,’ said Henry Watter if he said anything at all. Or, ‘It’s a tricky place, the world. You’ve got to be sharp to manage it.’‘Leave her be. She’ll be back,’ said Mrs Watter. ‘This is her home. She knows that.’

Lark Watter had always planned to run away from her stifling suburban life in 1960s Sydney. At university she encounters an American, Tom, and with him the promise of escape. Following Tom to the other side of the world by freighter is a journey to freedom—but the adventure Lark has embarked on isn’t quite what she had anticipated. Not on the way there, and certainly not in New York…

A picaresque journey across the high seas and through the extremes of the ’60s, Dancing on Coral was Glenda Adams’ second novel and established her international reputation. (Publisher's blurb)

Australian Literature Macquarie University 2015 (Semester 1)
Text Unit Name Institution Year
Reconstruction of an Event Glenda Adams , 1979 single work short story (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Quadrant , May vol. 23 no. 5 1979; (p. 53-54) Sun , Winter vol. 4 no. 3 1979; The Hottest Night of the Century : Short Stories 1979; (p. 121-125) Quadrant Twenty-Five Years 1982; (p. 459-463) Perspectives One : Short Stories 1985; (p. 117-121) Contemporary Classics 65-95 : The Best Australian Short Fiction 1965-1995 1996; (p. 1-7)
Creative Writing University of New South Wales 2014 (Semester 2)
Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon The Tempest of Clemenza Glenda Adams , Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1996 Z210656 1996 single work novel (taught in 1 units)

'This dark, intelligent, aching tale within a tale within a tale tells the story of young Clemenza's last day of life in Ludlow, Vermont. You are seduced into enjoying yourself only to find at a most uncomfortable moment that this is for real.--Sydney Morning Herald.' 

Novel Writing Workshop University of Technology, Sydney 2009
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