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y separately published work icon Velvet Waters selected work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 Velvet Waters
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* Contents derived from the Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,:McPhee Gribble , 1990 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
When the Mice Failed to Arrive, Gerald Murnane , single work short story (p. 1-29)
Stream System, Gerald Murnane , single work short story (p. 31-54)
Land Deal, Gerald Murnane , single work short story (p. 55-60)
The Only Adam, Gerald Murnane , single work short story (p. 61-69)
Stone Quarry, Gerald Murnane , single work short story (p. 71-92)
Precious Bane, Gerald Murnane , single work short story (p. 93-104)
Cotters Come No More, Gerald Murnane , single work short story (p. 105-118)
There Were Some Countries, Gerald Murnane , single work short story (p. 119-124)
Finger-Web, Gerald Murnane , single work short story (p. 125-148)
First Love, Gerald Murnane , single work short story (p. 149-173)
Velvet Waters, Gerald Murnane , single work short story (p. 175-235)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: McPhee Gribble , 1992 .
      Extent: 235p.
      ISBN: 0869142259 (pbk.)
Alternative title: Velvet Waters, Una Melodia
Language: Italian

Works about this Work

How I Went from Hating to Loving and Collecting the Books of Gerald Murnane Frank Carleton , 2010 single work essay
— Appears in: Biblionews and Australian Notes and Queries , March-June no. 365/366 2010; (p. 10-15)
'I have bought two Gerald Murnane first edition books: Tamarisk Row, his first novel, published in Melbourne in 1974 by Heinemann, and Velvet Waters, his sixth book, a collection of short stories published by McPhee Gribble in 1990. The following will tell how I got into Murnane.' (p. 10)
Time in Gerald Murnane's Velvet Waters Paolo Bartoloni , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 14 no. 1 2000; (p. 47-52)
Indefinite Desires: Love and the Search for Truth in the Fiction of Gerald Murnane Nicholas Birns , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , Spring vol. 55 no. 3 1995; (p. 48-62)
y separately published work icon Gerald Murnane Imre Salusinszky , South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1993 Z165381 1993 single work criticism
Untitled Clem Gorman , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Scarp , October no. 21 1992; (p. 71)

— Review of Velvet Waters Gerald Murnane , 1990 selected work short story
[Review] A Body of Water [et al] Gay Raines , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Studies , November no. 6 1992; (p. 145-151)

— Review of A Body of Water : A Year's Notebook Beverley Farmer , 1990 selected work autobiography short story poetry diary ; The Country Without Music Nicholas Hasluck , 1990 single work novel ; Longhand : A Writer's Notebook Murray Bail , 1989 single work autobiography novel ; Master of the Ghost Dreaming Mudrooroo , 1991 single work novel ; Cloudstreet Tim Winton , 1991 single work novel ; Lateshows Frank Moorhouse , 1990 selected work prose ; Velvet Waters Gerald Murnane , 1990 selected work short story ; The Harbour Breathes Anna Couani , 1989 selected work prose poetry
The Real Work David Brooks , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Voices , Winter vol. 2 no. 2 1992; (p. 89-92)

— Review of Cosmo Cosmolino Helen Garner , 1992 single work novel ; Velvet Waters Gerald Murnane , 1990 selected work short story
Controlling Text at the Risk of Losing Readers Leon Trainor , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 November 1990; (p. B6)

— Review of Velvet Waters Gerald Murnane , 1990 selected work short story ; The Plains Gerald Murnane , 1982 single work novel
Forecasts Janet Campbell , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , September vol. 70 no. 1008 1990; (p. 27)

— Review of Velvet Waters Gerald Murnane , 1990 selected work short story
Going Along With a Journeyman D. J. O'Hearn , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January (1990-1991) no. 127 1990; (p. 12-13)

— Review of Velvet Waters Gerald Murnane , 1990 selected work short story
Our Best Fiction John MacGregor , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Independent Monthly , December-January vol. 2 no. 6 1990-1991; (p. 44-45)
How I Went from Hating to Loving and Collecting the Books of Gerald Murnane Frank Carleton , 2010 single work essay
— Appears in: Biblionews and Australian Notes and Queries , March-June no. 365/366 2010; (p. 10-15)
'I have bought two Gerald Murnane first edition books: Tamarisk Row, his first novel, published in Melbourne in 1974 by Heinemann, and Velvet Waters, his sixth book, a collection of short stories published by McPhee Gribble in 1990. The following will tell how I got into Murnane.' (p. 10)
Main Book Prize to Murnane Jane Sullivan , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 25 February 1991; (p. 14)
Indefinite Desires: Love and the Search for Truth in the Fiction of Gerald Murnane Nicholas Birns , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , Spring vol. 55 no. 3 1995; (p. 48-62)
y separately published work icon Gerald Murnane Imre Salusinszky , South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1993 Z165381 1993 single work criticism
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