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Issue Details: First known date: 1987... 1987 Stories from the Warm Zone and Sydney Stories
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'Stories told from the point of view of Beatie, a young girl growing up in Brisbane,  (Publication summary)recreate family relationships and trace the path from adolescence to adulthood.'

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Contents

* Contents derived from the Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,:Penguin , 1987 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Under the House, Jessica Anderson , single work short story (p. 3-16)
The Appearance of Things, Jessica Anderson , single work short story (p. 17-44)
Against the Wall, Jessica Anderson , single work short story

In suburban stories such "Against The Wall," a young girl's year of home lessons (she stutters, and school is interrupted on that account) exposes her to the delicious boredom--yet terror--of seeing what one's parents' lives are like 24 hours of the day.

(Source: Kirkus Reviews)

 (p. 45-66)
The Way to Budjerra Heights, Jessica Anderson , single work short story (p. 67-104)
The Aviator, Jessica Anderson , single work autobiography (p. 105-111)
The Milk, Jessica Anderson , single work short story (p. 115-139)
The Late Sunlight, Jessica Anderson , single work short story (p. 140-157)
Outdoor Friends, Jessica Anderson , single work short story (p. 158-246)
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1987 .
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      Extent: 245p.
      ISBN: 0140097082
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      Americas,      :       Viking ,       1987 .
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      Extent: vii, 246p.p.
      ISBN: 0670816264
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Untapped , 2021 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
      ISBN: 9781922749079
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Works about this Work

Reading Australia : 'Jessica Anderson's Tirra Lirra by the River' Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 369 2015; (p. 30-32)

'In 1978, Australia’s two most coveted national literary prizes of the time were both won by women: Helen Garner’s first novel Monkey Grip (1977) won the National Book Council Award for fiction, and the Miles Franklin Literary Award was won by Tirra Lirra by the River (1978), Jessica Anderson’s fourth novel. Both of these books have since become classics of Australian literature, rarely out of print and regularly rediscovered by new generations of readers.' (Author's introduction 30)
The Tales of Strangers Carmen Callil , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings , July no. 10 2012; (p. 61-66) 'Frances O'Beirne, the young heroine of The Commandant (1975), offers a key to the genius of Jessica Anderson: 'I am made up of hundreds of persons, and I never know which will come out.' Open Anderson's eight published works of fiction and you'll be presented with different worlds, all-encompassing, entirely absorbing, real.' (Author's introduction)
Turning Up the Heat on the 'Warm Zone': A Novel Reading of Jessica Anderson's Queensland Jane Gilpin , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , vol. 12 no. 2 2000; (p. 32-44)
y separately published work icon Fabricating the Self : The Fictions of Jessica Anderson Elaine Barry , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1996 Z509037 1996 single work criticism
"The Older You Grow, the Less You Care" Margaret Jones , 1994 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 9 July 1994; (p. 6A)
[Review] Stories from the Warm Zone and Sydney Stories Pat Jacobs , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , October vol. 2 no. 10 1987; (p. 14-15)
— Review of Stories from the Warm Zone and Sydney Stories Jessica Anderson , 1987 selected work short story autobiography
Glowing Peter Goldsworthy , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , August no. 41 1987; (p. 19)
— Review of Stories from the Warm Zone and Sydney Stories Jessica Anderson , 1987 selected work short story autobiography
Memories Fed by Imagination Lawrence Bourke , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , January vol. 7 no. 4 1989; (p. 64)
— Review of Final Things John Sligo , 1987 selected work novella ; Stories from the Warm Zone and Sydney Stories Jessica Anderson , 1987 selected work short story autobiography
[Review] The Commandant Gay Raines , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Studies , December no. 3 1989; (p. 81-88)
— Review of The Commandant Jessica Anderson , 1975 single work novel ; Stories from the Warm Zone and Sydney Stories Jessica Anderson , 1987 selected work short story autobiography
Notes on Fiction Nicolette Stasko , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: The Phoenix Review , Summer 1987/8 no. 2 1987; (p. 117-120)
— Review of The Last Man's Head : Chip-Chop, Chip-Chop, The Last Man's Head Off Jessica Anderson , 1970 single work novel ; Self Possession Marion Halligan , 1987 single work novel ; The Invaluable Mystery Lesbia Harford , 1987 single work novel ; Stories from the Warm Zone and Sydney Stories Jessica Anderson , 1987 selected work short story autobiography
The Tales of Strangers Carmen Callil , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings , July no. 10 2012; (p. 61-66) 'Frances O'Beirne, the young heroine of The Commandant (1975), offers a key to the genius of Jessica Anderson: 'I am made up of hundreds of persons, and I never know which will come out.' Open Anderson's eight published works of fiction and you'll be presented with different worlds, all-encompassing, entirely absorbing, real.' (Author's introduction)
The Child in the (Queensland) House: David Malouf and Regional Writing Gillian Whitlock , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Provisional Maps : Critical Essays on David Malouf 1994; (p. 71-84)
Solitude and Relationship in Jessica Anderson's Shorter Fiction John Colmer , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Short Fiction in the New Literatures in English : Proceedings of the Nice Conference of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies 1989; (p. 63-68)
y separately published work icon Fabricating the Self : The Fictions of Jessica Anderson Elaine Barry , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1996 Z509037 1996 single work criticism
"The Older You Grow, the Less You Care" Margaret Jones , 1994 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 9 July 1994; (p. 6A)
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