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Is part of Fish Lips Trilogy Carolyn Van Langenberg , 2001- series - author novel
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In Fish Lips, Rose, Li-tsieng's paramour, becomes a ghost when the Japanese bombed Penang in 1941. Was she ever real? (Publisher blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication: In memory of Annie Monypenny.
  • Earlier incarnations of several sections of Fish Lips have been published as short stories in the journals Voices, Southerly and Kajian Malaysia ( facing title page note).

  • Epigraph: What is more active than the life of the psyche, with its reactions, its multiple impressions, its swells, its dreams, its memories? - Germaine Dulac, - Cine Magazine, No. 28 Juli 11, 1924: 67-68, as quoted in To Desire Differently by Sandy Flitterman- Lewis.

    Do Fish have a conscience? - John Doyle, ABC radio, 1994.

  • Book 1 of the Fish Lips Trilogy.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Briar Hill, Watsonia - Greensborough - Plenty area, Melbourne - Northeast, Melbourne, Victoria,: Indra Publishing , 2001 .
      Extent: 200p.
      ISBN: 0958580596
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Related Works

Fish Lips Carolyn Van Langenberg , 1991 single work short story
— Appears in: Voices , Summer (1991-1992) vol. 1 no. 4 1991; (p. 70-76)
— Appears in: Kalimat : An International Periodical of English and Arabic Creative Writing , June no. 6 (Arabic) 2001;
Sound Bites Carolyn Van Langenberg , 1994 single work short story
— Appears in: Southerly , March vol. 54 no. 1 1994; (p. 57-68)
History Carolyn Van Langenberg , 1995 extract novel (Fish Lips)
— Appears in: Voices , Autumn vol. 5 no. 1 1995; (p. 74-78)
Fish Lips Carolyn Van Langenberg , 2001 extract novel (Fish Lips)
— Appears in: Island , Winter no. 86 2001; (p. 133-137)
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Works about this Work

Carolyn van Langenberg : Creativity from Stark Realism Raghid Nahhas , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kalimat : An International Periodical of English and Arabic Creative Writing , June no. 14 (Arabic) 2003; (p. 45-58)
Fish Lips and The Teetotaller's Wake. (Book Review) David Hayden , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 63 no. 2 2003; (p. 202-204)
— Review of Fish Lips Carolyn Van Langenberg , 2001 single work novel ; The Teetotaller's Wake Carolyn Van Langenberg , 2003 single work novel
Narratives of Heat and History Maria Simms , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: LiNQ , vol. 29 no. 1 2002; (p. 76-79)
— Review of Fish Lips Carolyn Van Langenberg , 2001 single work novel
Mars Bars and Ecstasy Lucy Sussex , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 167 2002; (p. 108-110)
— Review of All That False Instruction : A Novel of Lesbian Love Elizabeth Riley , 1975 single work novel ; Machines for Feeling Mireille Juchau , 2001 single work novel ; Room Temperature Cath Kenneally , 2001 single work novel ; Parachute Silk : Friends, Food, Passion : A Novel in Letters Gina Mercer , 2001 single work novel ; After Cynthia Amy Witting , 2001 single work novel ; Fish Lips Carolyn Van Langenberg , 2001 single work novel
'Ghost Writing' at It's Most Apt Loma Bridge , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 17 November 2001; (p. 18)
— Review of Fish Lips Carolyn Van Langenberg , 2001 single work novel
Fish Lips and The Teetotaller's Wake. (Book Review) David Hayden , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 63 no. 2 2003; (p. 202-204)
— Review of Fish Lips Carolyn Van Langenberg , 2001 single work novel ; The Teetotaller's Wake Carolyn Van Langenberg , 2003 single work novel
'Ghost Writing' at It's Most Apt Loma Bridge , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 17 November 2001; (p. 18)
— Review of Fish Lips Carolyn Van Langenberg , 2001 single work novel
Mars Bars and Ecstasy Lucy Sussex , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 167 2002; (p. 108-110)
— Review of All That False Instruction : A Novel of Lesbian Love Elizabeth Riley , 1975 single work novel ; Machines for Feeling Mireille Juchau , 2001 single work novel ; Room Temperature Cath Kenneally , 2001 single work novel ; Parachute Silk : Friends, Food, Passion : A Novel in Letters Gina Mercer , 2001 single work novel ; After Cynthia Amy Witting , 2001 single work novel ; Fish Lips Carolyn Van Langenberg , 2001 single work novel
Narratives of Heat and History Maria Simms , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: LiNQ , vol. 29 no. 1 2002; (p. 76-79)
— Review of Fish Lips Carolyn Van Langenberg , 2001 single work novel
Carolyn van Langenberg : Creativity from Stark Realism Raghid Nahhas , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kalimat : An International Periodical of English and Arabic Creative Writing , June no. 14 (Arabic) 2003; (p. 45-58)
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Subjects:
Settings:
  • Penang,
    c
    Malaysia,
    c
    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • c
    Australia,
    c
  • 1940-2000
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