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Cover illustration by Graham McKenzie
Contents
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The Year of the White Knight : A Collection of Omens and Sub-News and a Memorandum of Feelings,
single work
short story
(p. 1-11)
Note: With an illustration by Stephen Pascoe
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Sandra,
single work
short story
(p. 20-25)
Note: With an illustration by Mandy Brown
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Market Day,
single work
short story
In "Market Day" a blind woman discovers accidentally that she is now grey and old, but this woman transcends her tragic past and self-interest to serve the cause of her niece's love. This little brown Aunt who has patiently endured physical and emotional suffering is almost deified because of her capacity to love a world she cannot see. She accommodates the loss of her own youth, and by the end of the story her hair is no longer the focus of her despair but, appropriately, has the appearance of a bronze crown. This narrative is also interesting in that Farmer recreates the particular textures and sounds of Elpida's environment as the reader shares the blind woman's dependence upon aural or mnemonic experience.
(Source: 'Against the Grain: Beverley Farmer's Writing')
Note: With an illustration by Annie Irish -
Immortal,
single work
short story
(p. 33-37)
Note: With an illustration by Mark Wilson
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Thylacine,
single work
short story
(p. 38-43)
Note: With an illustration by Waldemar Buczynski
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The Dancing Tree,
single work
short story
(p. 44-52)
Note: With an illustration by Sue Hainsworth
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Sweet and Sour Story,
single work
short story
(p. 53-61)
Note: With an illustration by Mary Leunig
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The Service of the Bishop,
extract
novel
(p. 62-70)
Note: With an illustration by Lin Tobias
- Talks with My Uncle Moro, single work short story (p. 71-77)
- Parsley, Cod and Old Lace, single work short story (p. 78-82)