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y separately published work icon My Blue-Checker Corker and Me single work   novel  
Is part of Boomeroo Trilogy 1985-1986 series - author novel
Issue Details: First known date: 1982... 1982 My Blue-Checker Corker and Me
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Adaptations

y separately published work icon Boomeroo! Alan Becher , 1986 11615547 1986 single work drama

Notes

  • Epigraph: Our ideas and our instincts work upon our memory of these people who have lived before us, and so they take some clarity of outline. It's not to our credit to think we begin today, and it's not to our glory to think we end today. All through time we keep coming into the shore like waves. You stick to your blood, son; there's a certain fierceness in blood that can bind you with the long community of life. - Stark Young, So Red the Rose
  • Epigraph: It isn't easy to resurrect a place that exists farther away than dreams: only memories can afford the frail embellishments. This is the excuse I offer for the melded topographic lies and surrendering anachronisms.
  • Author's note: It isn't easy to resurrect a place that exists farther away than dreams; only memories can afford the frail embellishments. This is the ecuse I offer for the melded topographic lies and surrounding anachronisms.
  • Dedication: This book could not have been written without the support of my mother, Janice, who loved five kids through the insanity of childhood to the unquiet peace of their safer, somewhat selves... without the encouragement of Niels Stevens who has motivated young Australians to mould imagination for the pleasure of others... without the baton of Beatrice Davis who deals in truth.. nor without the guidance of Canada Jack, a perennial old bastard, who told me so much about the enduring pigeons my great-grandfather, Big Dar, flew throughout his resloute life that I feel I have lived before in a dulcet, richer but poorer world.. and I regret that I haven't.
  • Book 2 of the Boomeroo Trilogy.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 1982 .
      Extent: viii, 166p.p.
      Note/s:

      • Author's note:

        It's for Big Mum who chopped the morning's wood for too long to be forgotten. Nana always quietly there. Auntie Ruby whose home is your home. Auntie Merle who knew Jack River's cousin. Uncle Ann & Mooks the lives of every party, wedding or wake.

        Aline Kilmer who wrote: I'm sorry you are wiser: I'm sorry you are taller. I liked you better foolish, And I liked you better smaller.

      ISBN: 0868612367
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Fontana , 1983 .
      Extent: 166p.
      Note/s:

      • Author's note: It's for Big Mum who chopped the morning's wood for too long to be forgotten. Nana always quietly there. Auntie Ruby whose home is your home. Auntie Merle who knew Jack River's cousin. Uncle Ann & Mooks the lives of every party, wedding or wake.

        Aline Kilmer who wrote: I'm sorry you are wiser: I'm sorry you are taller. I liked you better foolish, And I liked you better smaller.

      ISBN: 0006160247
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,      :       Ticknor and Fields ,       1986 .
      Extent: 178p.
      Edition info: 1st American ed.
      Note/s:
      • Dedication: For Bobbie Radley who grew up in Australia in the thirties in the world of the 'Hollywood Saturday Matinee', who married a GI, Kenny Betts, during World War II and went to the United States with him, where she spent the rest of her life raising five daughters and working for RCA Victor in Findlay, Ohio. She never lost her belief in her dream of the American Dream.
      ISBN: 089919432X, 0899194729 (pbk.)
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Works about this Work

Vogel Winner Claims He Never Wrote a Word Amanda Meade , 1996 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 2-3 March 1996; (p. 3)
[Review] Jack Rivers and Me Thomas P. Coakley , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , March vol. 1 no. 1 1987; (p. 55)
— Review of Jack Rivers and Me Paul Radley , 1981 single work novel ; My Blue-Checker Corker and Me Paul Radley , 1982 single work novel
Welcome Back to Boomeroo Carol Treloar , 1982 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 6 November 1982; (p. 31)
— Review of My Blue-Checker Corker and Me Paul Radley , 1982 single work novel
Pubescent Smut Lowers the Tone Something Wonderful Rory Barnes , 1982 single work review
— Appears in: The National Times , 24-30 October 1982; (p. 22)
— Review of My Blue-Checker Corker and Me Paul Radley , 1982 single work novel
Connoisseur's Fiction Guide Nancy Keesing , 1982 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 13 November 1982; (p. 13)
— Review of Getting Away with It : A Novel Kevin Brophy , 1982 single work novel ; Faith of Our Fathers Spiro Zavos , 1982 selected work short story ; My Blue-Checker Corker and Me Paul Radley , 1982 single work novel
Connoisseur's Fiction Guide Nancy Keesing , 1982 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 13 November 1982; (p. 13)
— Review of Getting Away with It : A Novel Kevin Brophy , 1982 single work novel ; Faith of Our Fathers Spiro Zavos , 1982 selected work short story ; My Blue-Checker Corker and Me Paul Radley , 1982 single work novel
[Review] Jack Rivers and Me Thomas P. Coakley , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , March vol. 1 no. 1 1987; (p. 55)
— Review of Jack Rivers and Me Paul Radley , 1981 single work novel ; My Blue-Checker Corker and Me Paul Radley , 1982 single work novel
Pubescent Smut Lowers the Tone Something Wonderful Rory Barnes , 1982 single work review
— Appears in: The National Times , 24-30 October 1982; (p. 22)
— Review of My Blue-Checker Corker and Me Paul Radley , 1982 single work novel
Welcome Back to Boomeroo Carol Treloar , 1982 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 6 November 1982; (p. 31)
— Review of My Blue-Checker Corker and Me Paul Radley , 1982 single work novel
Vogel Winner Claims He Never Wrote a Word Amanda Meade , 1996 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 2-3 March 1996; (p. 3)
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Last amended 29 Apr 2008 14:32:42
Subjects:
  • Bush,
  • New South Wales,
  • Country towns,
Settings:
  • 1950s
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