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Issue Details: First known date: 2007 2007
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Abstract

'Tom Loxley is holed up in a remote bush shack trying to finish his book on Henry James when his beloved dog goes missing. What follows is a triumph of storytelling, as The Lost Dog loops back and forth in time to take the reader on a spellbinding journey into worlds far removed from the present tragedy.

'Set in present-day [2007] Australia and mid-twentieth century India, here is a haunting, layered work that brilliantly counterpoints new cityscapes and their inhabitants with the untamed, ancient continent beyond. With its atmosphere of menace and an acute sense of the unexplained in any story, it illuminates the collision of the wild and the civilised, modernity and the past, home and exile.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Gus, of course
  • Epigraph: The whole of anything can never be told.- Henry James, Notebook.
  • Other formats: Also sound recording.

Publication Details of Earliest Known Version

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Works about this Work

Melbourne by the Book John Bailey , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 12 August 2012;
There Goes the Neighbourhood! : The Indian-Subcontinental in the Asian / Australian Literary Precinct Mridula Nath Chakraborty , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 12 no. 2 2012; This paper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the nature of Asian Australian Writing, a debate that started sometime circa 2000s and seems to have gathered some force with the putative rise of global Asia. In its early stages, the referent for this academic debate was Asian-American Studies and whether or not it made sense for such a trans-Atlantic term to be applied to the Antipodean region. In the last decade, Australia’s position within the Asian geo-political region has been increasingly articulated with respect to bilateral exchange with its immediate neighbours, mainly in the arena of trade and security. Writing this essay in 2012, it seems that the two strands, the academic and the geographical, have strategically merged to define the parametres of Asian Australian Writing. [First paragraph of the article]
Sometimes it Takes a Writer Marion Rankine , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 200 2010; Marion Rankine considers originality and place in Australian writing.
Writers Go to the Dogs ... and Cats, Birds, Monkeys, Pigs Stephen Downes , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , February vol. 4 no. 1 2009;
Plaudits Bring Less Confidence Rosemary Neill , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8-9 March 2008;
Mourning and Loss Jane Shilling , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: New Statesman , 5 June 2008;
— Review of The Lost Dog Michelle De Kretser 2007 single work novel ;
One Man and His Dog Ursula K. Le Guin , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian , 14 June 2008;
— Review of The Lost Dog Michelle De Kretser 2007 single work novel ;
An Anthropological Turn? Nathan Hollier , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 192 2008;
— Review of On a Wing and a Prayer Peter Bensley 2006 single work novel ; The Lost Dog Michelle De Kretser 2007 single work novel ; Musk and Byrne Fiona Capp 2008 single work novel ; The Solemn Lantern Maker Merlinda Bobis 2008 single work novel ; The Biographer Virginia Patricia Duigan 2008 single work novel ; The Spare Room Helen Garner 2008 single work novel ; They Called Me the Wildman : The Prison Diary of Henricke Nelson Robert Hollingworth 2008 single work novel ; Many Years a Thief David Hutchison 2007 single work novel ; Jamaica : A Novel Malcolm Knox 2007 single work novel ; The Good Parents Joan London 2008 single work novel ; Black Sheep : 'A Dystopian Novel' Ben Peek 2007 single work novel ; Misconceptions Sophie Townsend 2008 single work novel ;
Haunted by History Dara Horn , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Washington Post , 8 July 2008;
— Review of The Lost Dog Michelle De Kretser 2007 single work novel ;
When a Dog Goes Walkabout Carmen Callil , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Observer , 27 July 2008;
— Review of The Lost Dog Michelle De Kretser 2007 single work novel ;
There Goes the Neighbourhood! : The Indian-Subcontinental in the Asian / Australian Literary Precinct Mridula Nath Chakraborty , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 12 no. 2 2012; This paper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the nature of Asian Australian Writing, a debate that started sometime circa 2000s and seems to have gathered some force with the putative rise of global Asia. In its early stages, the referent for this academic debate was Asian-American Studies and whether or not it made sense for such a trans-Atlantic term to be applied to the Antipodean region. In the last decade, Australia’s position within the Asian geo-political region has been increasingly articulated with respect to bilateral exchange with its immediate neighbours, mainly in the arena of trade and security. Writing this essay in 2012, it seems that the two strands, the academic and the geographical, have strategically merged to define the parametres of Asian Australian Writing. [First paragraph of the article]
Melbourne by the Book John Bailey , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 12 August 2012;
Sometimes it Takes a Writer Marion Rankine , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 200 2010; Marion Rankine considers originality and place in Australian writing.
Dog-Inspired Tale Wins Book Prize Jason Steger , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 20 May 2008;
Writers Go to the Dogs ... and Cats, Birds, Monkeys, Pigs Stephen Downes , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , February vol. 4 no. 1 2009;
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Awards

2009 longlisted International Awards — Women's Prize for Fiction (UK)
2008 shortlisted South East Asia and South Pacific Region — Best Book
2008 shortlisted Barbara Jefferis Award
2008 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
2008 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Book of the Year
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Subjects:
  • Pet dogs
  • Loss
Settings:
  • Australia
  • India
  • 1900-1999
  • 2000-2009
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