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Issue Details: First known date: 1985... 1985 A Man in the Laundrette
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    y separately published work icon Home Time Beverley Farmer , Fitzroy Ringwood : McPhee Gribble Penguin , 1985 Z371272 1985 selected work short story Following on from her debut collection, Milk, Beverley Farmer continues to explore the tension, violence, and estrangement that fracture inter-personal relationships in these short stories. Fitzroy Ringwood : McPhee Gribble Penguin , 1985 pg. 91-101
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    y separately published work icon The Australian Literary Magazine The Australian Literary Quarterly 6-7 April 1985 Z646154 1985 newspaper issue 1985 pg. 8
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    y separately published work icon The Faber Book of Contemporary Australian Short Stories Murray Bail (editor), London : Faber , 1988 Z356335 1988 anthology short story humour science fiction (taught in 1 units)

    'Collects representative short stories by Christina Stead, Peter Cowan, David Malouf, Peter Carey, and Kate Grenville' 

         London : Faber , 1988     pg. 281-290
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    y separately published work icon Place of Birth Beverley Farmer , London : Faber , 1990 Z391652 1990 selected work short story London : Faber , 1990 pg. 177-187
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    y separately published work icon Collected Stories Beverley Farmer , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1996 Z566020 1996 selected work short story

    'Beverley Farmer's reputation as a deeply sensitive and lyrical writer was established with her short stories. Her two collections Milk and Home Time are included here with five uncollected stories and others which were part of A Body of Water. The stories in this richly rewarding collection unfold in the order in which they were written.' (Publication summary)

         St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1996     pg. 259-268
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    y separately published work icon The Penguin Book of the City Robert Drewe (editor), Ringwood : Penguin , 1997 Z147590 1997 anthology short story Ringwood : Penguin , 1997 pg. 137-151
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    y separately published work icon Making Connections : Six Australian Short Story Writers Brian Keyte (editor), Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1997 Z221043 1997 anthology short story criticism

    The stories chosen chart the emotions and the experiences of human beings living at particular times and in particular places. Collected as the landmark of a new millennium approached, the stories represent an interest at that time in past and future.

         Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1997     pg. 53-62
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    y separately published work icon The Penguin Century of Australian Stories Carmel Bird (editor), Ringwood : Viking , 2000 Z290212 2000 anthology short story Ringwood : Viking , 2000 pg. 285-294
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