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Issue Details: First known date: 1986... 1986 The Color of the Sky : A Novel
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'The narrator, Leon, is summoned back from a year in England to Australia, to the country house of his few remaining relatives. There he is drawn into a world that hints at drug running, at smuggling, through a woman, Annette, whose exact relationship to the household is vague. Intercut with Leon’s narrative are snatches of the life of an exploring nineteenth-century forebear, Tom.'

Source: Australian Book Review.

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 1986 .
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      Extent: 129p.
      Description: port.
      ISBN: 0949206059 (pbk.)
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Untapped , 2021 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
      ISBN: 9781922749147

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Works about this Work

Time, Memory, Genealogy : Peter Cowan's Sense of the Past Roslyn Jolly , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Peter Cowan : New Critical Essays 1992; (p. 109-122)
The Unfurnished Fiction of Willa Cather and Peter Cowan Robert L. Ross , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Peter Cowan : New Critical Essays 1992; (p. 61-69)
Epic and Tragic Journeys : Peter Cowan's Biographical Explorations Julie Lewis , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Peter Cowan : New Critical Essays 1992; (p. 43-59)
Untitled Margot Luke , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 54)

— Review of The Color of the Sky : A Novel Peter Cowan , 1986 single work novel
Of Books and Covers : Peter Cowan Bruce Bennett , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , August vol. 3 no. 8 1988; (p. 10-12) Overland , May no. 114 1989; (p. 58-62)
Writer's Landscape of a Lifetime Katharine England , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , March 1986; (p. 21)

— Review of A Window in Mrs X's Place : Selected Short Stories Peter Cowan , 1986 selected work short story ; The Color of the Sky : A Novel Peter Cowan , 1986 single work novel
On the Bleaker Side of Love Susan McKernan , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 10 June vol. 108 no. 5522 1986; (p. 107,109)

— Review of A Window in Mrs X's Place : Selected Short Stories Peter Cowan , 1986 selected work short story ; The Color of the Sky : A Novel Peter Cowan , 1986 single work novel
A Short Novel, But Sharply In Focus John Barnes , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 25 October 1986; (p. 15)

— Review of The Color of the Sky : A Novel Peter Cowan , 1986 single work novel
Bush Novelists Up the Creek Thelma Forshaw , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 29-30 March 1986; (p. 12)

— Review of The Color of the Sky : A Novel Peter Cowan , 1986 single work novel ; The Floor of Heaven James McQueen , 1986 single work novel ; Rain in the Distance Suzanne Falkiner , 1986 single work novel
Guessing the Colour of the Sky : Blue? Paul Salzman , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 85 1986; (p. 29-30)

— Review of The Color of the Sky : A Novel Peter Cowan , 1986 single work novel
Award Winning Writers Mary Wright , 1986 single work column
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , July vol. 1 no. 7 1986; (p. 3)
Practitioner of Silence Wendy Jenkins , 1986 single work column biography
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , March vol. 1 no. 3 1986; (p. 4-5)
Silences and Spaces : Peter Cowan's Place in the Landscape of Australian Literature Elizabeth Jolley , 1987 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , September no. 108 1987; (p. 59-64) Peter Cowan : New Critical Essays 1992; (p. 9-19)
Of Books and Covers : Peter Cowan Bruce Bennett , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , August vol. 3 no. 8 1988; (p. 10-12) Overland , May no. 114 1989; (p. 58-62)
Epic and Tragic Journeys : Peter Cowan's Biographical Explorations Julie Lewis , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Peter Cowan : New Critical Essays 1992; (p. 43-59)
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