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Issue Details: First known date: 1987... 1987 Dancing on Coral
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'‘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)

Notes

  • Parts of this novel first appeared in Lies and Stories and The Hottest Night of the Century.
  • Dedication: In memory of my father

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson , 1987 .
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      Extent: 291p.
      Reprinted: 1988
      ISBN: 0207155224, 0207161038 (pbk.)
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      Americas,
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      Viking ,
      1987 .
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      Extent: 291p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date 26 March 1987
      ISBN: 0670812420
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Text Publishing , 2013 .
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      Extent: 384p.
      Note/s:
      ISBN: 9781922147110
      Series: y separately published work icon Text Classics Text Publishing (publisher), Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2012- Z1851461 2012 series - publisher novel 'Great books by great Australian storytellers.' (Text website.)

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Works about this Work

Australia in Three Books Yves Rees , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2021; Meanjin , Summer vol. 80 no. 4 2021;

— Review of Fairyland : A Novel Sumner Locke Elliott , 1990 single work novel ; Dancing on Coral Glenda Adams , 1987 single work novel ; Wild Abandon Emily Bitto , 2021 single work novel
A Reef Revisited Susan Wyndham , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 15-16 June 2013; (p. 28-29) The Age , 15 June 2013; (p. 26) The Canberra Times , 15 June 2013; (p. 19)
Feeling More Like Holden Than Phoebe...Following the Formative Years in Fiction Ellie Francis-Brophy , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Fantastic Self : Essays on the Subject of the Self 1999; (p. 120-126)
The Goodbye Girl Candida Baker , 1996 single work column biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16 March 1996; (p. 9s)
Odysseus Unbound: Singing with the Sirens / Liminality and Stasis in Glenda Adams' "Dancing on Coral" Karen Brooks , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: New Literatures Review , Winter-Summer no. 28-29 1994-1995; (p. 55-64)
[Review] Dancing on Coral Terri-Ann White , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , December vol. 2 no. 12 1987; (p. 14)

— Review of Dancing on Coral Glenda Adams , 1987 single work novel
A Credit to the Winner Stephen Matchett , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: The Book Magazine , December-January vol. 1 no. 3 1987-1988; (p. 26)

— Review of Dancing on Coral Glenda Adams , 1987 single work novel
A Voyage of Discovery : Dodging Life's Mad Sheep Elizabeth Jolley , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 96 1987; (p. 5-6)

— Review of Dancing on Coral Glenda Adams , 1987 single work novel
Clever and Trite Look at Heroines Deanie Carbon , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 28 November 1987;

— Review of Dancing on Coral Glenda Adams , 1987 single work novel
Dancing : in Delight and with Brilliance Barbara Jefferis , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 1 August 1987; (p. 16)

— Review of Dancing on Coral Glenda Adams , 1987 single work novel
From Sea to Air : The Impact of Jet Travel on Australia's 'Australia' Andrew Taylor , 1992-1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Making of a Pluralist Australia 1950-1990: Selected Papers from the Inaugural EASA Conference 1991 1992; (p. 11-24)
`I'm Going to America in My Mind' : The American Presence in Australian Writing, 1960-1990 Don Anderson , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reconnoitres : Essays in Australian Literature in Honour of G. A. Wilkes 1992; (p. 176-190) Text and Sex 1995; (p. 128-146)
Glenda Adams Candida Baker (interviewer), 1989 single work interview biography
— Appears in: Yacker 3 : Australian Writers Talk About Their Work 1989; (p. 12-41)
Fiddling with Words Cassandra Pybus (interviewer), 1991 single work interview
— Appears in: Island , Winter no. 47 1991; (p. 20-25)
The Goodbye Girl Candida Baker , 1996 single work column biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16 March 1996; (p. 9s)
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