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Issue Details: First known date: 1983... 1983 Milk : Stories
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A collection of short stories set in Greece and Australia. They chart the distances between people, their place in light and landscape, their failures to love and be loved. (Source: LibrariesAustralia)

Notes

  • 'All of us are passing through no matter where we go....' Stratis Myrivilis, The Mermaid Madonna

Contents

* Contents derived from the Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,:McPhee Gribble , 1983 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Milk, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 1-14)
Melpo, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 15-27)
Sally's Birthday, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 28-41)
Saint Kay's Day, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 42-54)
At the Airport, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 55-66)
Ismini, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 67-75)
Darling Odile, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 76-89)
Gerontissa, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 90-98)
Snake, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 99-111)
Pumpkin, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 112-122)
Summer on Ice, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 123-138)
Inheritance, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 139-149)
The Captain's House, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 150-160)
Woman in a Mirror, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 161-169)
Maria's Girl, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 170-178)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: McPhee Gribble , 1983 .
      image of person or book cover 4379047680077028571.jpg
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      Extent: 178p.
      Description: illus., port.
      ISBN: 0140071849 (pbk), 9780140071849 (pbk)
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: McPhee Gribble , 1990 .
      Extent: 178p.
      ISBN: 9780869141076 (pbk), 0869141074 (pbk)

Other Formats

  • Also braille, sound recording.

Works about this Work

Beverley Farmer's Embrace of the Mirror Janice Shaw , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 25 no. 2 2011; (p. 151-159)
Janice Shaw examines Beverley Farmer's A Body of Water. Shaw states that the Farmer's term 'embrace of the mirror' is a motif that 'characterises Farmer's writing in terms of the relationships she presents. The gender issues revealed through these relationships are characterised by feelings of coldness, otherness, and love, being a reflection of the self which only serves to emphasise its 'selfish nature...' (p. 151)
Story and the Effacement of Story : Beverley Farmer's The Bone House Chester Eagle , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Well in the Shadow : A Writer's Journey through Australian Literature 2010; (p. 273-292)
Beverley Farmer : A Retrospective Kristin Hammett , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , Autumn vol. 56 no. 1 1996; (p. 92-105)
Beverley Farmer : Interview Daniel R. Willbanks (interviewer), 1992 single work interview
— Appears in: Speaking Volumes : Australian Writers and Their Work 1992; (p. 72-86)
Travellers' Tales Gay Raines , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , November no. 6 1992; (p. 68-80)
[Review] Milk Adam Dutkiewicz , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: Words and Visions , Spring no. 17 1984; (p. 35)

— Review of Milk : Stories Beverley Farmer , 1983 selected work short story
The Society of One : A Short Story Retrospective Graham Burns , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: Island Magazine , Autumn no. 22 1985; (p. 38-40)

— Review of A Change for the Better : short stories Peter Mathers , 1984 selected work short story ; Chiaroscuro : Stories Strephyn Mappin , 1984 selected work short story ; Uphill Runner James McQueen , 1984 selected work short story ; A Universe of Clowns Serge Liberman , 1983 selected work short story ; Milk : Stories Beverley Farmer , 1983 selected work short story ; If Blood Should Stain the Lino Gary Dunne , 1983 selected work short story
Home is Where the Art Is: Beverley Farmer and Marion Campbell Eden Liddelow , 1986 single work criticism
— Appears in: Scripsi , November vol. 4 no. 2 1986; (p. 281-294)

— Review of Alone : A Novel Beverley Farmer , 1980 single work novel ; Home Time Beverley Farmer , 1985 selected work short story ; Lines of Flight : A Novel Marion Campbell , 1985 single work novel ; Milk : Stories Beverley Farmer , 1983 selected work short story
Recent Australian Fiction Thelma Forshaw , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , September vol. 28 no. 9 1984; (p. 81-84)

— Review of Goodbye Goldilocks Judith Arthy , 1984 single work novel ; Harry John Yeomans , 1984 single work novel ; Stories From Suburban Road : An Autobiographical Collection, 1920-1939 T. A. G. Hungerford , 1983 selected work autobiography ; Kewpie Doll Barbara Hanrahan , 1984 single work novel ; Milk : Stories Beverley Farmer , 1983 selected work short story ; Walking the Dog and Other Stories Marian Favel Clair Eldridge , 1984 selected work short story
Anguished Words of the Greeks Laurie Clancy , 1983 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 24 December 1983; (p. 8)

— Review of Milk : Stories Beverley Farmer , 1983 selected work short story
Story and the Effacement of Story : Beverley Farmer's The Bone House Chester Eagle , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Well in the Shadow : A Writer's Journey through Australian Literature 2010; (p. 273-292)
Beverley Farmer's Embrace of the Mirror Janice Shaw , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 25 no. 2 2011; (p. 151-159)
Janice Shaw examines Beverley Farmer's A Body of Water. Shaw states that the Farmer's term 'embrace of the mirror' is a motif that 'characterises Farmer's writing in terms of the relationships she presents. The gender issues revealed through these relationships are characterised by feelings of coldness, otherness, and love, being a reflection of the self which only serves to emphasise its 'selfish nature...' (p. 151)
Beverley Farmer : Interview Daniel R. Willbanks (interviewer), 1992 single work interview
— Appears in: Speaking Volumes : Australian Writers and Their Work 1992; (p. 72-86)
Loss and Reassurance: Beverley Farmer's Fiction Cassandra Pybus , 1986 single work criticism
— Appears in: Island Magazine , Summer/Autumn no. 25/26 1986; (p. 36-38)
Readers Digest : A Diet of Streamlined Fiction Nicholas Jose , 1985 single work
— Appears in: The Age Monthly Review , vol. 5 no. 6 1985; (p. 17-18)
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