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Issue Details: First known date: 2000... 2000 When Darkness Falls
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'Set in the Kimberley region of Western Australia this is a collection of powerful love stories from the past. Each story explores different aspects of love - from mothers' love to lustful love, from forbidden or dutiful love to innocence.' (Source: Back cover, UQP 2000 edition)

Exhibitions

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Notes

  • Dedication: To Joshua, Francis, Murphy, Jayson and Zanamarica Bodey. To Nimiluk - Tic, thanks.
  • Author's note: 'Over the years I have found myself telling stories to children white, black and brindle of all ages and backgrounds....

    In such settings children the world over are no different to those who listened to the stories told by their great-great-grandfathers...

    For my children, the black, the white and the brindle, it was mostly as darkness was falling, when the wind died, and the world settled for the night, that I would sit in quiet repose, while in my mind unfolded a story from within...These are some of the stories I have told through all of the years.'

  • Each story is preceeded by an explanation of the geographical location in which the events described took place.

Contents

* Contents derived from the St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,:University of Queensland Press , 2000 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Blood Berry Vine, John Bodey , single work prose Indigenous story (p. [1]-28)
The Weeping Trees, John Bodey , single work prose dreaming story (p. 30-65)
The Parrots and the Vine, John Bodey , single work prose Indigenous story (p. 67-125)
Ningaloo, John Bodey , single work prose Indigenous story (p. 127-154)

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Works about this Work

[Untitled] Barbara Bush , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , June no. 6 2002;

— Review of When Darkness Falls John Bodey , 2000 selected work prose
Storytelling, Aboriginal Beliefs, and Customs Marilyn Strelau , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 15 no. 1 2001; (p. 66-67)

— Review of When Darkness Falls John Bodey , 2000 selected work prose
Untitled 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 13 June no. 253 2001; (p. 34)

— Review of When Darkness Falls John Bodey , 2000 selected work prose
Paperbacks Debra Adelaide , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 15 July 2000; (p. 10)

— Review of When Darkness Falls John Bodey , 2000 selected work prose
[Untitled] Barbara Bush , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , June no. 6 2002;

— Review of When Darkness Falls John Bodey , 2000 selected work prose
Paperbacks Debra Adelaide , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 15 July 2000; (p. 10)

— Review of When Darkness Falls John Bodey , 2000 selected work prose
Untitled 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 13 June no. 253 2001; (p. 34)

— Review of When Darkness Falls John Bodey , 2000 selected work prose
Storytelling, Aboriginal Beliefs, and Customs Marilyn Strelau , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 15 no. 1 2001; (p. 66-67)

— Review of When Darkness Falls John Bodey , 2000 selected work prose
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