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1993
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1993
Fat Chance
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Fourteen year old Lisa wants to lose weight and dreams of becoming a world-famous model -- but how can she when she feels that she's a social outcast as she has to work weekends on her mother's hot dog stand.
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Little Breaks
2022
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Monthly , September 2022; (p. 42-44) 'ONCE WE’VE PEELED OFF the wetsuits and packed up the boards, we are quiet. The car ride home is scored with the sound of sniffing, as though in grief, though it is really the ocean emptying out of our sinuses. There is no need for speech. It is a soft quiet, a golden quiet. In the driver’s seat, my partner is thinking about his turns, the way he twisted his body to pull the board against the wave, flitting up the fist of the sea. Next to him, I am thinking about how, one day, I might be able to stand up without screaming. I am what surfers refer to as a kook, which is to say: I am terrible at surfing. In every possible way, I am an embarrassment to the art of standing on the ocean. I was terrible at it when I started, and I am terrible at it now, and I love it.' (Introduction) -
Untitled
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 8 no. 1 1994; (p. 7)
— Review of Fat Chance 1993 single work novel -
Untitled
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 9 no. 3 1994; (p. 31)
— Review of Fat Chance 1993 single work novel -
Untitled
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 38 no. 1 1994; (p. 25)
— Review of Fat Chance 1993 single work novel
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Untitled
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 38 no. 1 1994; (p. 25)
— Review of Fat Chance 1993 single work novel -
Untitled
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 9 no. 3 1994; (p. 31)
— Review of Fat Chance 1993 single work novel -
Untitled
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 8 no. 1 1994; (p. 7)
— Review of Fat Chance 1993 single work novel -
Little Breaks
2022
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Monthly , September 2022; (p. 42-44) 'ONCE WE’VE PEELED OFF the wetsuits and packed up the boards, we are quiet. The car ride home is scored with the sound of sniffing, as though in grief, though it is really the ocean emptying out of our sinuses. There is no need for speech. It is a soft quiet, a golden quiet. In the driver’s seat, my partner is thinking about his turns, the way he twisted his body to pull the board against the wave, flitting up the fist of the sea. Next to him, I am thinking about how, one day, I might be able to stand up without screaming. I am what surfers refer to as a kook, which is to say: I am terrible at surfing. In every possible way, I am an embarrassment to the art of standing on the ocean. I was terrible at it when I started, and I am terrible at it now, and I love it.' (Introduction)
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