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'Eight-year-old Pearl tries very hard to get things right. She watches over her small brother and manages her mother's happiness, while carefully guarding her private passions. But the events of a summer's day are about to change Pearl's life, and nothing may ever be right again. In a cooler, greener suburb, Sonia is learning to live alone after the death of her husband, and at the edge of the city, close to the beaches, the young artist Adam Logan is hoping that his recent celebrity will open the doors to a new life. In ways connected but unforeseen, Pearl's tragedy will soon affect the worlds of these two strangers. Combining the intimacy of a family's heartache, with the suspense of a thriller, Careless is a gripping, seductive novel about the ties of caring and responsibility, that are formed, and broken, in our society. It is a novel about our times.' (Backcover)
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Dedication: For my brothers, Scott and Tony.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also sound recording; braille
Works about this Work
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The Silver Age of Fiction
2011
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criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 70 no. 4 2011; (p. 110-115)‘In human reckoning, Golden Ages are always already in the past. The Greek poet Hesiod, in Works and Days, posited Five Ages of Mankind: Golden, Silver, Bronze, Heroic and Iron (Ovid made do with four). Writing in the Romantic period, Thomas Love Peacock (author of such now almost forgotten novels as Nightmare Abbey, 1818) defined The Four Ages of Poetry (1820) in which their order was Iron, Gold, Silver and Bronze. To the Golden Age, in their archaic greatness, belonged Homer and Aeschylus. The Silver Age, following it, was less original, but nevertheless 'the age of civilised life'. The main issue of Peacock's thesis was the famous response that he elicited from his friend Shelley - Defence of Poetry (1821).’ (Publication abstract)
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The (Un)recovered
2008
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review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 20 no. 1 2008;
— Review of Careless 2006 single work novel -
A Remarkable Meditation on How We Manage to Exist
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 22 no. 1 2008; (p. 77-78)
— Review of Careless 2006 single work novel -
Untitled
2008
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review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , 29 February - 13 March no. 337 2008; (p. 20)
— Review of Careless 2006 single work novel -
Remembering
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: LiNQ , November-December no. 34 2007; (p. 114-116)
— Review of Careless 2006 single work novel
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The Eyes Have It
2006
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review
— Appears in: The Age , 3 June 2006; (p. 21)
— Review of Swallow the Air 2003 selected work short story ; Careless 2006 single work novel -
Untitled
2006
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review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 13 June vol. 124 no. 6524 2006; (p. 69)
— Review of Careless 2006 single work novel -
Beauty Arises from Loss When Art is Redemption
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 10-11 June 2006; (p. 36-37)
— Review of Careless 2006 single work novel -
Untitled
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , May/June vol. 85 no. 10 2006; (p. 48)
— Review of Careless 2006 single work novel -
The Art of Being Careless
2006
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review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 24 June 2006; (p. 8)
— Review of Careless 2006 single work novel -
When the Water Falls
2006
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biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 3-4 June 2006; (p. 34-35) -
The Face : Deborah Robertson : Writer
2006
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 24-25 June 2006; (p. 3) -
Undercover
2007
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column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 31 March - 1 April 2007; (p. 30) A column canvassing current literary news including some literary award news: the announcement of the 2007 winner of the Grace Leven Poetry Prize (to Robert Adamson for The Goldfinches of Baghdad) and the shortlisting of Deborah Robertson's Careless for several awards. -
A List Both Short and Sweet
2007
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 April 2007; (p. 37) -
Plucky Writer Finally Finds Her Voice, and it Roars
2007
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column
— Appears in: The Australian , 10 May 2007; (p. 9)
Awards
- 2008 longlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
- 2007 shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award — Fiction Prize
- 2007 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year
- 2007 winner Kibble Literary Awards — Nita Kibble Literary Award
- 2007 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
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