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Issue Details:
First known date:
1989-1990...
no.
117
December-January
1989-1990
of
Australian Book Review
est. 1961
Australian Book Review
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* Contents derived from the 1989-1990 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Memories Tap the Past,
single work
review
— Review of The Story of the Falling Star 1989 single work picture book ; (p. 9) -
They Give Your Cell to Someone Else,
Rod Moran
,
Graeme Dixon
,
single work
criticism
biography
interview
(p. 12-13)
Rod Moran talks to Graeme Dixon, the first winner of the David Unaipon Award, a major literary prize established for Aboriginal writers who are previously unpublished. Dixon is open about his journey of writing poetry and his life from the period when he was in State reformatories to prison, and the balance between pessimism and optimism in his life. (Source: Moran, Rod, They Give Your Cell to Someone Else. Australian Book Review, No. 17, December-January, 1989-1990:12-13.)
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Exit Visa,
single work
review
— Review of Exit Visa 1989 single work novel ; (p. 25-26) -
On a Wing and a Prayer,
single work
review
— Review of On a Wing and a Prayer : Great Australian Air Stories 1989 selected work short story ; (p. 26) -
Untitled,
single work
review
— Review of Over the Top with Jim : Hugh Lunn's Tap-Dancing, Bugle-Blowing Memoir of a Well-Spent Boyhood 1989 single work autobiography ; (p. 26) - Lies that Pretend to Liberate, single work criticism biography (p. 27-29)
- If You Can Sell It, You Can Publish It, single work criticism (p. 30-32)
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Myra,
single work
review
— Review of Myra 1864 single work novel ; (p. 32) -
Keneally Moves Away from Us,
single work
review
— Review of Towards Asmara 1989 single work novel ; (p. 33-34) -
The Graces, the Furies and Harry,
single work
review
— Review of Smyrna : A Novel 1989 single work novel ; (p. 34-35) -
Long Live Such Yarns,
single work
review
— Review of Rough Wallaby 1989 single work novel ; (p. 35-36) -
Sand on a Gumshoe,
single work
review
— Review of Sand on the Gumshoe : A Century of Australian Crime Writing 1989 anthology short story ; (p. 36-37) -
Cocaine Blues,
single work
review
— Review of Cocaine Blues 1989 single work novel ; (p. 37) -
Books for Young Readers,
single work
review
— Review of Henry and Voula : An Off-beat Love Story 1989 single work novel ; Mates and Other Stories 1989 selected work short story ; The Great Secondhand Supper 1989 single work novel ; Pugwall's Summer 1989 single work novel ; Amazing : More Wonderfully Weird Stories 1989 anthology children's fiction ; Gumboots and Other Risks 1989 single work children's fiction ; (p. 38-39) -
An Outsider Who Thrived,
single work
review
— Review of Manly Girls 1989 single work autobiography ; (p. 40) -
Quiet Force and Volatile Passion,
single work
review
— Review of Driving Too Fast 1989 selected work poetry ; Eros in Landscape 1989 selected work poetry ; (p. 42-44) -
Poetry Rules - Unacknowledged,
single work
review
— Review of Dragonshadow : Poems 1989 selected work poetry ; Bow Tie & Tails 1989 selected work poetry ; The Shed Manifesto : Poems 1989 selected work poetry ; Conversing with Stones 1989 selected work poetry ; (p. 44-46)
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