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'Monsoon is a journey into the hearts and memories of those caught in a certain time in a particular place.
'Sandy Donaldson has been working for a volunteer organisation in Vietnam for the past four years. As her contract nears it end, she is reluctant to leave so she invites her oldest friend, Anna, to come for a holiday and discover its beautiful tourist destinations.
'Both girls have unexplored links to this country. Sandy's father is a Vietnam vet and Anna's mother was a Vietnamese boat person.
'During their travels, they meet Tom, an old Australian journalist who covered the war and plans to report on the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan. It is Tom who tries to persuade Sandy's father to return to Long Tan and settle the ghosts that have haunted him for 40 years, and suggests that Anna should delve into her mother's past.
'But the girls are reluctant, swept up in their own concerns, relationships, and a business deal that has the potential to go horribly wrong. However, it is the near-blind Buddhist nun living alone in the pagoda atop one of the karsts in Halong Bay who might hold the key.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Dedication: Dedicated to Jim Revitt; my uncle, mentor and mate, who covered the Vietnam war for the Australian Broadcasting Commission 1966-67. Thanks for everything Jimbo!
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Australians and the Pacific Rim : The Contested Past in the Popular Fiction of Di Morrissey
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Journal of Popular Culture , vol. 2 no. 2 2013; (p. 211-220) 'Former print and television journalist Di Morrissey is Australia's biggest-selling writer of popular fiction. Her novels incrementally construct an Australia re-shaped for the new century through the interplay of significant social forces and demographic shifts. Her imaginary also places Australian culture within a global network of affiliations generated by the colonial and imperial past, as well as by more recent strategic alliances, and encompasses some of the darker elements of Australia's collective inheritance. The critical reception of Morrissey's work, however, has hitherto been scant and dismissive. Yet the Pacific Rim novels - Tears of the Moon, Scatter the Stars, Kimberley Sun, Monsoon, and The Plantation - can be read within perspectives afforded by dark tourism research and theories of cognitive dissonance, revealing that they subvert widely received understandings of Australia's relationships within the Pacific region and constitute a subliminal force for public education.' (Author's abstract 211)
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Bestsellers and Blockbusters
Sydney
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Australian Broadcasting Commission
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2010
15302616
2010
film/TV
'Jennifer Byrne is joined by the heavy artillery of the publishing world to discuss what it takes to be a bestselling author. Jennifer is joined by the man behind the enigmatic Jack Reacher Lee Child, author of Ice Station and The Five Greatest Warriors Matthew Reilly, author of 17 bestselling novels including The Silent Country, Di Morrissey as well as Australia's biggest selling author Bryce Courtenay.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Review
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 2 February 2008; (p. 42)
— Review of Monsoon 2007 single work novel -
Off the Shelf : Fiction
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 17 November 2007; (p. 28)
— Review of Monsoon 2007 single work novel
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Off the Shelf : Fiction
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 17 November 2007; (p. 28)
— Review of Monsoon 2007 single work novel -
Review
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 2 February 2008; (p. 42)
— Review of Monsoon 2007 single work novel -
Australians and the Pacific Rim : The Contested Past in the Popular Fiction of Di Morrissey
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Journal of Popular Culture , vol. 2 no. 2 2013; (p. 211-220) 'Former print and television journalist Di Morrissey is Australia's biggest-selling writer of popular fiction. Her novels incrementally construct an Australia re-shaped for the new century through the interplay of significant social forces and demographic shifts. Her imaginary also places Australian culture within a global network of affiliations generated by the colonial and imperial past, as well as by more recent strategic alliances, and encompasses some of the darker elements of Australia's collective inheritance. The critical reception of Morrissey's work, however, has hitherto been scant and dismissive. Yet the Pacific Rim novels - Tears of the Moon, Scatter the Stars, Kimberley Sun, Monsoon, and The Plantation - can be read within perspectives afforded by dark tourism research and theories of cognitive dissonance, revealing that they subvert widely received understandings of Australia's relationships within the Pacific region and constitute a subliminal force for public education.' (Author's abstract 211)
-
form
y
Bestsellers and Blockbusters
Sydney
:
Australian Broadcasting Commission
,
2010
15302616
2010
film/TV
'Jennifer Byrne is joined by the heavy artillery of the publishing world to discuss what it takes to be a bestselling author. Jennifer is joined by the man behind the enigmatic Jack Reacher Lee Child, author of Ice Station and The Five Greatest Warriors Matthew Reilly, author of 17 bestselling novels including The Silent Country, Di Morrissey as well as Australia's biggest selling author Bryce Courtenay.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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cVietnam,cSoutheast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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Ha Long Bay,
cVietnam,cSoutheast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
