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'How does light look when left entirely to itself? If you look into an empty box full of light and the light is not refelcted on surfaces, you will see blackness. Only when there is an object for the light to fall upon can we see the presence of light.
Light and shadow, love and loss, the extraordinary and the everyday are captured through the lens of this evocative new collection of fiction. Camera Obscura moves through Greece, Italy and France, across to Japan and into the Australian suburbs, as its characters take journeys into themselves and away from their pasts.
A mother's shattered view of the world is healed through her friendship with a blind man, and a mortician, unable to engage in life, finds solace among the dead. A couple plays out the final moments of a fading love, while an old man sets out to rekindle an enduring love from long ago.'
Source: /www.uqp.uq.edu.au (Sighted 09/04/2008).
Source: /www.uqp.uq.edu.au (Sighted 09/04/2008).
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Works about this Work
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Weightless Cargo
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Indigo , Spring no. 4 2009; (p. 133-134)
— Review of [Camera Obscura] 2008 selected work short story -
Untitled
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 22 no. 3 2008; (p. 65)
— Review of [Camera Obscura] 2008 selected work short story -
Polished Stones
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , no. 2 2008;
— Review of [Camera Obscura] 2008 selected work short story ; Second Son 2007 selected work short story ; Brief Candles 2008 selected work short story ; Svetlana or Otherwise 2006 selected work short story ; Buried Alive 2007 single work novella ; Last Days of Summer 2007 selected work short story -
Untitled
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 305 2008; (p. 56)
— Review of [Camera Obscura] 2008 selected work short story -
Deep in the Heart of Suburbia
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , July vol. 3 no. 6 2008; (p. 22)
— Review of A History of the Beanbag : And Other Stories 2007 selected work short story ; Redfin 2007 selected work short story ; [Camera Obscura] 2008 selected work short story ; The Boat 2008 selected work short story
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Eye for Detail in the Big Picture
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 March 2008; (p. 13)
— Review of [Camera Obscura] 2008 selected work short story -
The Telling Tiny Moment
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19-20 April 2008; (p. 35)
— Review of [Camera Obscura] 2008 selected work short story -
Snapshots of Loneliness in Lives Out of the Future
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 19 April 2008; (p. 23)
— Review of [Camera Obscura] 2008 selected work short story -
Deep in the Heart of Suburbia
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , July vol. 3 no. 6 2008; (p. 22)
— Review of A History of the Beanbag : And Other Stories 2007 selected work short story ; Redfin 2007 selected work short story ; [Camera Obscura] 2008 selected work short story ; The Boat 2008 selected work short story -
Untitled
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 305 2008; (p. 56)
— Review of [Camera Obscura] 2008 selected work short story
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