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Notes
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Dedication: For Mary with love.
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Author's note: Experience, memory and imagination all play a part in this novel and it prompts me to sound a note of caution. Experience, for a writer, is mostly compost, and memory, being linked to emotion, is notoriously unreliable. It would therefore be a mistake to assume the narrator's voice is mine, or that other characters and events are based more on reality than on imagination.
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Epigraph: Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt; she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole. De Profundis. Oscar Wilde.
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Epigraph: We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. From a poster in a psychologist's waiting room.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Looking Back in Anger
2001
single work
autobiography
essay
— Appears in: Evening at Murunna Point 2001; (p. 42-44) -
Where Angels Fear to Tread
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Northern Perspective , Wet Season vol. 15 no. 2 1992; (p. 110-112)
— Review of Shadows 1992 single work novel -
Characters of Different Boards
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 22 August 1992; (p. 11)
— Review of Shadows 1992 single work novel ; Praise 1992 single work novel -
That Elsewhere World
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 141 1992; (p. 55-56)
— Review of Shadows 1992 single work novel ; In a Wilderness of Mirrors 1992 single work novel -
Looking Over the Edge of the Abyss of Terror
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 13 June 1992; (p. wkd 6)
— Review of Shadows 1992 single work novel
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Sparkling Gems and Shadows
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , October vol. 11 no. 3 1992; (p. 61)
— Review of Portrait of a Dog and Other Classical Bagatelles 1991 selected work poetry ; Shadows 1992 single work novel -
Tough Guys Play on the Adrenalin
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 November 1992; (p. rev 7)
— Review of Set Up 1992 single work novel ; The Japanese Job 1992 single work novel ; No Way Back 1992 single work novel ; Shadows 1992 single work novel -
Forecasts
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , April vol. 71 no. 1025 1992; (p. 28)
— Review of Shadows 1992 single work novel -
Two Intelligent and Thoughtful Novels
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 16 May 1992; (p. C11)
— Review of Shadows 1992 single work novel ; In a Wilderness of Mirrors 1992 single work novel -
Looking Over the Edge of the Abyss of Terror
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 13 June 1992; (p. wkd 6)
— Review of Shadows 1992 single work novel -
The Dangers of Seeing Others as We Really Are
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 10 May 1992; (p. 23) -
Looking Back in Anger
2001
single work
autobiography
essay
— Appears in: Evening at Murunna Point 2001; (p. 42-44)
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