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At Mona Enright's hospital for sick babies the tang of harbour air, sharpened by the fuel smell of the ferries, breezes in through French doors opening onto a wide verandah. Beyond is the swirl and urgency of wartime Sydney - and servicemen, on leave from the front, seeking company and a good time. (Publisher's blurb, back cover).
Notes
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Epigraph: How can one make a life out of six cardboard boxes full of tailors' bills, love letters and old picture cards? Virginia Woolf
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also braille. Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Untitled
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian-Canadian Studies , vol. 12 no. 2 1994; (p. 92-96)
— Review of Mona's Gift 1993 single work novel -
Mona's Story Recalls World War II
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 8 no. 1 1994; (p. 77)
— Review of Mona's Gift 1993 single work novel -
Fiction and Accuracy
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 134 1994; (p. 79-81)
— Review of Soundings 1993 single work novel ; Mona's Gift 1993 single work novel -
Manipulators: Groping, Grasping, Infilling and Fragmenting
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , January vol. 12 no. 4 1994; (p. 58-59)
— Review of The Toucher 1993 single work novel ; The Collected Verse of Banjo Paterson 1992 collected work poetry ; A Plastic Paradise 1993 single work novel ; Mona's Gift 1993 single work novel ; Helplessly Tangled in Female Arms and Legs : Elizabeth Jolley's Fictions 1993 single work criticism ; Atomic Fiction: The Novels of David Ireland 1993 multi chapter work criticism ; The River 1974 single work autobiography -
Untitled
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , December vol. 5 no. 3 1993; (p. 87-88)
— Review of Mona's Gift 1993 single work novel
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The Impossibility of Knowing Full Truths
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 2 October 1993; (p. C9)
— Review of Letter to Constantine 1993 selected work short story ; Mona's Gift 1993 single work novel -
Manipulators: Groping, Grasping, Infilling and Fragmenting
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , January vol. 12 no. 4 1994; (p. 58-59)
— Review of The Toucher 1993 single work novel ; The Collected Verse of Banjo Paterson 1992 collected work poetry ; A Plastic Paradise 1993 single work novel ; Mona's Gift 1993 single work novel ; Helplessly Tangled in Female Arms and Legs : Elizabeth Jolley's Fictions 1993 single work criticism ; Atomic Fiction: The Novels of David Ireland 1993 multi chapter work criticism ; The River 1974 single work autobiography -
Fiction and Accuracy
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 134 1994; (p. 79-81)
— Review of Soundings 1993 single work novel ; Mona's Gift 1993 single work novel -
Commando in Kitchen Country
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11 September 1993; (p. 12A)
— Review of The Favourite 1993 single work novel ; Mona's Gift 1993 single work novel -
So Much in Common But Very Different
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 4 September 1993; (p. 21)
— Review of What I Have Written 1993 single work novel ; Mona's Gift 1993 single work novel -
Travels with My Aunt
1993
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: The Age , 18 September 1993; (p. 10) -
Thomas Shapcott
Nadine Myatt
(interviewer),
1993
single work
interview
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 154 1993; (p. 18-19)
Last amended 4 Jun 2007 13:24:39
Subjects:
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cPapua New Guinea,cPacific Region,
- Sydney, New South Wales,
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cPapua New Guinea,cPacific Region,
Settings:
- 1940s
- 1990s
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