AustLit
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.
Latest Issues
Notes
-
Epigraph: May I for my own self song's truth reckon, Journey's jargon .... Ezra Pound.
-
Epigraph: ....as it draws near to its desire our intellect enters so deep that memory cannot go back upon the track. Dante.
-
Epigraph: Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. Herman Melville.
-
Sound recording available.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Melbourne,
Victoria,:McPhee Gribble
, 1983 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Headlocks, single work short story (p. 11-15)
- Lizards, single work short story (p. 17-27)
- Moving Targets, single work short story (p. 29-44)
- Making the Island : Three Stories : 1. Sluts, single work short story (p. 47-57)
- Making The Island : Three Stories : 2. Sandshoes, single work short story (p. 59-74)
- Making the Island : Three Stories : 3. Gates Gates, single work short story (p. 75-93)
- Eating Inside, single work short story (p. 95-112)
- Travelling Off the Wall, single work short story (p. 113-124)
- Cowper's Dad, single work short story (p. 125-133)
- The Most Beautiful Place : Two Stories : A Swim at Opal Bay, single work short story (p. 137-142)
- The Most Beautiful Place : Two Stories : Waiting for Armand, single work short story (p. 143-149)
- Albatross, single work short story (p. 148-173)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
-
Cloudy Mystery in Deep Pools of Disturbing Prose
single work
review
— Review of Headlocks & Other Stories 1983 selected work short story -
Unfashionable in Literary Terms : Class in Australian Short Fiction of the 1980s
1998
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 153 1998; (p. 14-19) -
Untitled
1984
single work
review
— Appears in: True North/Down Under , no. 2 1984; (p. 105-107)
— Review of Over Here, Harv! 1983 selected work short story ; Headlocks & Other Stories 1983 selected work short story -
Bomb Nuts, Detectives and Prisoners
1984
single work
review
— Appears in: Island Magazine , Autumn-Winter no. 18/19 1984; (p. 40-44)
— Review of Woman in a Lampshade 1983 selected work short story ; Hostages 1983 selected work short story ; The Cure 1983 single work novel ; Headlocks & Other Stories 1983 selected work short story ; The Tournament 1983 single work novel ; The Hand That Feeds You : A Satiric Nightmare 1982 single work novel ; Stop Press 1982 single work novel ; Sister Kate : A Novel 1982 single work novel ; Were All Women Sex-Mad? And Other Stories 1982 selected work prose ; The Last Adventures of Christian Doom, Private I 1982 single work novel ; An Item from the Late News 1982 single work novel -
Merit in Each of Three Sets of Short Stories
1983
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 10 September 1983; (p. 15)
— Review of Headlocks & Other Stories 1983 selected work short story ; Hostages 1983 selected work short story ; The Strength of Tradition : Stories of the Immigrant Presence in Australia 1970-81 (Dedicated to David Martin) 1983 anthology short story
-
Bomb Nuts, Detectives and Prisoners
1984
single work
review
— Appears in: Island Magazine , Autumn-Winter no. 18/19 1984; (p. 40-44)
— Review of Woman in a Lampshade 1983 selected work short story ; Hostages 1983 selected work short story ; The Cure 1983 single work novel ; Headlocks & Other Stories 1983 selected work short story ; The Tournament 1983 single work novel ; The Hand That Feeds You : A Satiric Nightmare 1982 single work novel ; Stop Press 1982 single work novel ; Sister Kate : A Novel 1982 single work novel ; Were All Women Sex-Mad? And Other Stories 1982 selected work prose ; The Last Adventures of Christian Doom, Private I 1982 single work novel ; An Item from the Late News 1982 single work novel -
Distinguished Fiction
1983
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , December no. 93 1983; (p. 65-66)
— Review of Birds of Passage 1983 single work novel ; Over Here, Harv! 1983 selected work short story ; Hostages 1983 selected work short story ; Headlocks & Other Stories 1983 selected work short story -
A Look Behind the Veil of Diplomacy
1983
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 28 June vol. 103 no. 5371 1983; (p. 68)
— Review of Headlocks & Other Stories 1983 selected work short story -
Cloudy Mystery in Deep Pools of Disturbing Prose
single work
review
— Review of Headlocks & Other Stories 1983 selected work short story -
Fiction Close to the Brink
1983
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 30 July 1983; (p. 13)
— Review of Headlocks & Other Stories 1983 selected work short story -
Unfashionable in Literary Terms : Class in Australian Short Fiction of the 1980s
1998
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 153 1998; (p. 14-19) -
Hill Strives for Impersonality
1983
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: The Age , 23 July 1983; (p. 12)
Last amended 6 May 2004 16:07:24
Common subjects:
Export this record