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y separately published work icon Wet Graves single work   novel   crime   detective  
Is part of A Cliff Hardy Novel Peter Corris , 1980- series - author novel short story (number 13 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 Wet Graves
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'Someone's trying to cancel Cliff Hardy's licence, and he needs to find out why.

'He also has to work out why the case of missing schoolteacher Brian Madden keeps leading him back over fifty years to the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

'Finding the answers takes all his contacts - police, underworld and press - and keeps Hardy moving across Sydney, asking questions, probing the past... and finding the bodies.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Moorebank, Liverpool area, Sydney Southwest, Sydney, New South Wales,: Bantam Books , 1991 .
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      Extent: 242p.
      ISBN: 1863590250
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    y separately published work icon The Cliff Hardy Case Files Peter Corris , Neutral Bay : Bantam Books , 1999 Z208114 1999 selected work novel crime Neutral Bay : Bantam Books , 1999
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2014 .
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      Extent: 248p.
      Note/s:
      • Published December 1st 2014
      ISBN: 9781743437957
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Works about this Work

The Sydney Harbour Bridge : From Modernity to Post-Modernity in Australian Fiction Paul Genoni , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 12 no. 1 2012; 'This paper considers a recent spate of novels that deal in various ways with the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. These include Peter Corris's Wet Graves; Alex Miller's Conditions of Faith; Vicki Hastrich's ; and Sarah Hay's The Body in the Clouds. It is argued that these novels, written so long after the bridge's completion, are each grappling with the transformation of this icon of Australian modernism into the significant component in the nation's foremost experience of postmodern urban space - Circular Quay.' (Author's abstract)
Hardy Hits Tony Smith , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 129 1991; (p. 21)
— Review of Wet Graves Peter Corris , 1991 single work novel
Untitled Stuart Coupe , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Mean Streets : A Quarterly Journal of Crime, Mystery and Detection , February no. 2 1991; (p. 60)
— Review of Wet Graves Peter Corris , 1991 single work novel
It's Hardy, like a Crisp Uppercut Stephen Knight , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6 April 1991; (p. 41)
— Review of Wet Graves Peter Corris , 1991 single work novel
Wit and Widows, Money and Mayhem Robin Wallace-Crabbe , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 23-24 March 1991; (p. rev 5)
— Review of Wet Graves Peter Corris , 1991 single work novel
Forecasts Steven Kafkarisos , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , December-January (1990-1991) vol. 70 no. 1011 1990; (p. 17-18)
— Review of Wet Graves Peter Corris , 1991 single work novel
13 is a Lucky Number for Corris Mark Thomas , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 20 January 1991; (p. 20)
— Review of Wet Graves Peter Corris , 1991 single work novel ; Naismith's Dominion Peter Corris , 1990 single work novel
Wit and Widows, Money and Mayhem Robin Wallace-Crabbe , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 23-24 March 1991; (p. rev 5)
— Review of Wet Graves Peter Corris , 1991 single work novel
It's Hardy, like a Crisp Uppercut Stephen Knight , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6 April 1991; (p. 41)
— Review of Wet Graves Peter Corris , 1991 single work novel
Untitled Stuart Coupe , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Mean Streets : A Quarterly Journal of Crime, Mystery and Detection , February no. 2 1991; (p. 60)
— Review of Wet Graves Peter Corris , 1991 single work novel
The Sydney Harbour Bridge : From Modernity to Post-Modernity in Australian Fiction Paul Genoni , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 12 no. 1 2012; 'This paper considers a recent spate of novels that deal in various ways with the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. These include Peter Corris's Wet Graves; Alex Miller's Conditions of Faith; Vicki Hastrich's ; and Sarah Hay's The Body in the Clouds. It is argued that these novels, written so long after the bridge's completion, are each grappling with the transformation of this icon of Australian modernism into the significant component in the nation's foremost experience of postmodern urban space - Circular Quay.' (Author's abstract)
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Last amended 19 May 2020 05:14:00
Subjects:
  • Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales,
Settings:
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • Sydney Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales,
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