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'Beneath a vast constructed/deconstructed landscape (both human and geographic) lies a labyrinth of disused mineshafts. It is a landscape in which vast saline lakes suddenly appear overnight, in which wheat babies disappear into wheat fields, in which lizards are mistaken for rocks, in which a huge grain silo becomes a cathedral and a gold front-end loader the angel of the apocalypse. It is a place where history repeats/mirrors itself and is populated by doppelganagers and we find ourselves following the after-image of the phosphene as though it was a manuscript hoping for illumination.
'The book deals with multiplicity of perception - through history/memory, national mythologies, families and writing (blood and ink), puzzles and their reasons - which might be said to be their execution.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Large print.
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Definition and Exchange : Australian Fiction 1988-90
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada , December no. 8 1992; (p. 165-173) -
Oceana Fine Follows Fashion Fiction...
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 5 no. 1 1991; (p. 63)
— Review of Oceana Fine 1989 single work novel -
Our Best Fiction
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Independent Monthly , December-January vol. 2 no. 6 1990-1991; (p. 44-45) -
A Fine Line in Mythology
Hilary Irvin
(interviewer),
1990
single work
interview
— Appears in: The Writer's News , January vol. 4 no. 7 1990; (p. 16-17) -
Second Major Prize for Book
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 22 June 1990; (p. 16)
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Oceana's Fine and So's the Mountain
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 11-12 November 1989; (p. 7)
— Review of Oceana Fine 1989 single work novel ; The Mountain 1989 single work novel -
Fiction Threatens to Swallow the Reader
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 16 December 1989; (p. 15)
— Review of Oceana Fine 1989 single work novel ; The Mountain 1989 single work novel -
Plotting 5, a Quarterly Account of Recent Fiction
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , February no. 117 1990; (p. 52-57)
— Review of Oceana Fine 1989 single work novel ; The New Diversity : Australian Fiction : 1970-88 1989 selected work criticism ; A Man of Marbles 1989 single work novel ; The Mountain 1989 single work novel -
Contemporary Writing : the Mark of Quality
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11 November 1989; (p. 86)
— Review of Oceana Fine 1989 single work novel ; The Initiate 1989 single work novel ; Maestro 1989 single work novel -
Few Faltering Notes from Goldsworthy
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 25 November 1989; (p. B4)
— Review of Oceana Fine 1989 single work novel ; Maestro 1989 single work novel -
Our Best Fiction
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Independent Monthly , December-January vol. 2 no. 6 1990-1991; (p. 44-45) -
Snapshots and Memory's Alchemy
1989
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 11-12 November 1989; (p. 7) -
Author Wins Top Award
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The West Australian , 22 June 1990; (p. 15) -
`Great Big Book' Takes Franklin Award
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22 June 1990; (p. 2) -
Long Time Coming, but Each Line a Winner
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Australian , 22 June 1990; (p. 3)
