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Notes
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Dedication: To Don'o Kim
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Hale and Iremonger
, 1984 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Reading the Signs, single work short story (p. 7-11)
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Gypsies,
single work
short story
'Down at my grandmother’s house, near the river, the gypsies came by and sold us pigeons’ eggs. I don’t remember if we ate them. Maybe we blew them, pricking a pinhole in each end and blowing out the white and the yolk and keeping the shell to start a collection. It was called Diglis down there, because the land used to belong to the cathedral, d’église, in the language of our Norman conquerors. But by the time my grandmother lived there, the land between the old Victorian houses and the river was used as a garbage tip to raise its level so it wouldn’t flood each year. And along the riverbank were huge petroleum storage tanks.' (Introduction)
- On the Western Front, single work short story (p. 16-19)
- War Movie, single work short story (p. 20-21)
- Loose Lips and the Cold Warrior, single work short story (p. 22-25)
- Knock, Knock, single work short story (p. 26-30)
- Never Hesitate to Open up a File on a Friend, single work short story (p. 31-40)
- Reference for a Dealer, single work short story (p. 41-46)
- Class Feeling (for Deborah Thompson), single work short story (p. 47-59)
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The Decline in Importance of the Family,
single work
short story
'As I climbed the station steps to the platform, automatically I looked at the girls coming down, wearing their straw boaters and swinging their bulky satchels on their shoulders; automatically – because the age differential was now somewhat important, in one’s home town, automatically because it was the conditioned reflex of ten years’ growing up looking at the same girls on the cycle ride into school. I’d been looking at them that morning as I cycled into the station and when I became aware of it, I was surprised at my unconscious reaction. I hadn’t cycled down at that particular and reflex-promoting time for quite a while. It was a forgotten routine, and to be reminded of it in some way made up for cycling in the suit I’d pressed the night before.' (Introduction)
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The Fir Trees,
single work
short story
'As soon as he saw the house, the father said the fir trees would have to be cut down. They were dying, going an ugly brown; and planted too close together, their sides rubbing against each other, they had no light or air. But they had to be cut down because they were unproductive; even if they had been all green and flourishing, they would have been condemned; their dying was an excuse, not a reason. And when, because of its view and its village, he bought the house, he said the first thing we’ve got to do is to get down those fir trees. Because they were taking up space and producing nothing. And they were taking the goodness out of the soil; and he could grow nothing next to them; and he couldn’t afford to waste land. And as they were dying, the son didn’t defend them.' (Introduction)
- Ted Berrigan Without a Pepsi, single work short story (p. 101-102)
- Interlopers, single work short story (p. 103-107)
- Yet Once More, single work short story (p. 108-114)
- Welcome O Foreign Writer, single work short story (p. 115-119)
- The Offending Eye, single work short story (p. 120-125)
- Beach Report, single work short story humour satire (p. 126-130)
- Among My Books, single work short story (p. 131-219)
- In the Penal Colony, single work short story (p. 220-262)
- What it Was Like, Sometimes, single work short story (p. 263-280)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Koka-Kola Kulture : Reflections Upon Things American Down Under
1993
single work
criticism
essay
— Appears in: Southwest Review , Spring vol. 78 no. 2 1993; (p. 231-) Here Graham considers the Australian response to U. S. culture, and the influence of U. S. literary culture on Australian literature and writers. -
Lost and Found : The Narrative and The Descriptive Modes in Michael Wilding's 'What it Was Like, Sometimes'
1989
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the Short Story in English=Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle , Spring vol. 12 no. 1989; (p. 63-76) -
Untitled
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 274)
— Review of Reading the Signs 1984 selected work short story -
Paradise, Politics and Fiction : The Writing of Michael Wilding
1986
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 45 no. 1 1986; (p. 19-27) -
Losers and Loveless Liaisons
1985
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2 February 1985; (p. 40)
— Review of Reading the Signs 1984 selected work short story
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Marxism and Fiction
1985
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , December no. 101 1985; (p. 103-104)
— Review of The Paraguayan Experiment 1984 single work novel ; Reading the Signs 1984 selected work short story -
Signposts to Where?
1985
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 70 1985; (p. 23)
— Review of Reading the Signs 1984 selected work short story -
Losers and Loveless Liaisons
1985
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2 February 1985; (p. 40)
— Review of Reading the Signs 1984 selected work short story -
Untitled
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 274)
— Review of Reading the Signs 1984 selected work short story -
Koka-Kola Kulture : Reflections Upon Things American Down Under
1993
single work
criticism
essay
— Appears in: Southwest Review , Spring vol. 78 no. 2 1993; (p. 231-) Here Graham considers the Australian response to U. S. culture, and the influence of U. S. literary culture on Australian literature and writers. -
Lost and Found : The Narrative and The Descriptive Modes in Michael Wilding's 'What it Was Like, Sometimes'
1989
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the Short Story in English=Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle , Spring vol. 12 no. 1989; (p. 63-76) -
Paradise, Politics and Fiction : The Writing of Michael Wilding
1986
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 45 no. 1 1986; (p. 19-27)
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