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Alan Close Alan Close i(A31133 works by)
Born: Established: 1955 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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1 Around the State : Norther Rivers Writers' Centre Alan Close , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Newswrite : The NSW Writers' Centre Magazine , August/September no. 192 2010; (p. 18-19)
1 3 y separately published work icon Before You Met Me Alan Close , North Sydney : Random House Australia , 2008 Z1468173 2008 single work autobiography (taught in 1 units) 'No matter how hard he tried, Alan Close couldn't stay in a relationship. Then, at the age of 43, after yet another breakup, he decided he was going to find out what was going wrong and make a change. What followed was a painful yet ultimately revelatory process of looking back into the past - where memories of his childhood and early relationships where darkened by a long-forgotten secret he had failed to admit even to himself. Beautifully written, in a narrative that is utterly compelling, this is a non-fiction first - a male memoir about relationships that is impossible to put down, sure to hold up a mirror to male readers and provide a rare insight to women.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 Rhyme and Unreason Alan Close , 2000 single work biography
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 12 August 2000; (p. 55)
1 This Bachelor's Life Alan Close , 1995 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 17 June 1995; (p. 29-30)
1 6 y separately published work icon Men Love Sex Alan Close (editor), Milsons Point : Random House , 1995 Z88718 1995 anthology short story prose biography science fiction
1 Fishing with her Father i "She didn't come.", Alan Close , 1995 single work poetry
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , Summer vol. 7 no. 3 1995; (p. 45-46)
1 Her Desk, Her Wall, and Me i "A stone tortoise. A bronze swan. A wooden cat.", Alan Close , 1995 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14 January 1995; (p. 12A)
1 Let's Talk About Sex i "It's all we did this summer.", Alan Close , 1995 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Sydney Review , August no. 78 1995; (p. 16)
1 Nielsen Park i "They call themselves the Flotilla,", Alan Close , 1995 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13 May 1995; (p. 15A)
1 9 y separately published work icon The Australian Love Letters of Raymond Chandler Alan Close , Ringwood : McPhee Gribble , 1995 Z246377 1995 single work novel In 1956 the 67-year-old American crime writer Raymond Chandler was down on his luck. His wife of thirty years had died, he drank too much and his career was on the skids. He tried to shoot himself and missed, then confessed all to a journalist in London. On the other side of the world, in rural New South Wales, 17-year-old Deidre Gartrell read of his loneliness and sent him a letter detailing her vital statistics. So began an intimate correspondence between two people who could not have been further apart, and who were never to meet ... . [This] work is an inventive blend of fiction and fact which takes us on an intriguing journey from Los Angeles in the 1950s to Australia in the 1990's' (Back cover 1995 edition.).
1 Natural Healing Alan Close , 1994 single work short story
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4 January 1994; (p. 6-7) Men Love Sex 1995; (p. 225-238)
1 The Wolf Cubs on the Clarence i "She tells me this story and my job", Alan Close , 1994 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 19 March 1994; (p. wkd 6)
1 Scared i "Paul Kelly on the car cassette", Alan Close , 1994 single work poetry
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , March vol. 6 no. 1 1994; (p. 6)
1 The Little Bastards i "stunk like bare feet after a week or two", Alan Close , 1994 single work poetry
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , March vol. 6 no. 1 1994; (p. 5)
1 Chicken i "The house lives with the terrible truth.", Alan Close , 1994 single work poetry
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , September vol. 6 no. 3 1994; (p. 6)
1 The Evidence She Leaves in Rooms i "her vast calm", Alan Close , 1993 single work poetry
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , no. 13 1993; (p. 58-59)
1 Wednesday in Wombarra i "A day made in heaven", Alan Close , 1993 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11-12 September 1993; (p. rev 7)
1 Three Birds, Two Mothers and a Girl Getting Ready for School i "The scrawny baby fig-eater", Alan Close , 1993 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , March vol. 53 no. 1 1993; (p. 139)
1 The 1990 Festival of Sobbing and Weeping (for Michael Leunig) i "A night so balmy. Utter contentment.", Alan Close , 1993 single work poetry
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , March vol. 5 no. 1 1993; (p. 18)
1 The Boys Died i "My brother has fallen in love", Alan Close , 1993 single work poetry
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , March vol. 5 no. 1 1993; (p. 17)
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