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Notes
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Dedication: For my daughter Camilla
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Epigraph: A story exists in the space between a storyteller and a listener, in a site of transnarcissistic communication. Carrillo Mean, 'The Ear and the Ego'
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Epigraph: ...you lean against a bank... / T. S. Eliot, from 'East Coker'
Contents
- Conservatory, single work short story horror (p. 7-17)
- Barbara Hanrahan, single work biography (p. 21-47)
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A Telephone Call for Genevieve Snow,
single work
short story
horror
A primary school teacher is stalked by 'the Wolfman.'
- Mr Lightning, single work short story (p. 61-70)
- One Last Picture of Ruby-Rose, single work short story horror (p. 73-79)
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The Golden Moment,
single work
short story
THE GOLDEN MOMENT The story of the golden moment is a story about suburban Australia in the nineteen fifties. The street in which the story takes place is often called ‘the golden mile’ because so many wealthy bankers and barristers and surgeons have for generations lived there in grandeur and comfort with their beautiful wives and happy families. Almost all of these families have very white skins indeed, and are by religion Christians (of the Protestant kind). The rare Jewish or Roman Catholic family is treated with superb tolerance and charity, but it is understood that such families are darkened by a blight too powerful and mysterious to name.
The houses themselves bear the names they were given by the original inhabitants and some of these names reflect a nostalgia for places far away, others expressing a hope in the youthful country of Australia. The style of architecture is labelled ‘Federation’ in recognition of the modern birth of the country itself. The trees and flowers are by and large European, and the branches of the oaks and elms that line the street on one side almost touch those on the other, so that in summer a magical green tunnel arches above the traffic, and people from less beautiful suburbs drive along here just to marvel at the trees along the golden mile. Even ordinary traffic seems to move sedately along the grandest section of the road.
A golden moment is that time of the afternoon photographers love, when the light of day bathes the world in one last glow of radiance, when Paradise is promised, when everything stands still at the instant between the darkness and the light, when fairies and goblins and other spirits good and bad may be revealed.
The golden moment on the golden mile is one of nature’s marvels.(Source: author's website)
Note: With title: The Golden Moment (1995) -
The Piano
Freedom of Speech,
single work
essay
(p. 99-113)
Note: With title: 'The Piano'
- What Writers Do, single work criticism (p. 117-123)
- Chinese Carpets, single work biography (p. 127-135)
- My Mother's Death, single work autobiography (p. 139-143)
- Fact or Fiction : Who Knows, Who Cares, single work essay (p. 147-170)
- Reflections in My Father's Mirrors, single work autobiography (p. 173-192)
- As High as an Elephant's Eye, single work prose (p. 195-228)
- Reptile Girl, single work short story (p. 231-237)
- The Man in the Red Car, single work short story (p. 241-254)
- The Affair at the Ritz, single work short story humour (p. 257-260)
- Ties of Blood, single work short story (p. 263-271)
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Now Ida Haunts the Car Park
Elevator,
single work
short story
(p. 275-281)
Note: With title: Now Ida Haunts the Car Park
- Mouthugly, single work short story (p. 285-305)
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Her First Golden Moment,
single work
short story
(p. 309-317)
Note: With title: Her First Golden Moment (1989)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Teasing Out the Truth
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 December 1996; (p. rev 9)
— Review of Automatic Teller 1996 selected work short story prose biography criticism essay autobiography -
Hearing Voices
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 186 1996; (p. 47)
— Review of Automatic Teller 1996 selected work short story prose biography criticism essay autobiography -
Paperbacks
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14 December 1996; (p. 12s)
— Review of Automatic Teller 1996 selected work short story prose biography criticism essay autobiography -
Like Wise Words from a Close Friend
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 23 November 1996; (p. C11)
— Review of Automatic Teller 1996 selected work short story prose biography criticism essay autobiography -
Paperbacks
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 9 November 1996; (p. 7)
— Review of Automatic Teller 1996 selected work short story prose biography criticism essay autobiography
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Paperbacks
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 9 November 1996; (p. 7)
— Review of Automatic Teller 1996 selected work short story prose biography criticism essay autobiography -
Like Wise Words from a Close Friend
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 23 November 1996; (p. C11)
— Review of Automatic Teller 1996 selected work short story prose biography criticism essay autobiography -
Paperbacks
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14 December 1996; (p. 12s)
— Review of Automatic Teller 1996 selected work short story prose biography criticism essay autobiography -
Hearing Voices
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 186 1996; (p. 47)
— Review of Automatic Teller 1996 selected work short story prose biography criticism essay autobiography -
Teasing Out the Truth
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 December 1996; (p. rev 9)
— Review of Automatic Teller 1996 selected work short story prose biography criticism essay autobiography