AustLit logo

AustLit

That Vain Word No single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 2007-2008... 2007-2008 That Vain Word No
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Notes

  • Epigraph: He said, repeating the opinion of Socrates in Phaedrus, that a tree, so beautiful to look at, never spoke a word and that conversation was possible only in the city, between men. - Saul Bellow, Ravelstein

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Meanjin Eternal Summer vol. 66-67 no. 4-1 2007-2008 Z1487359 2007-2008 periodical issue 2007-2008 pg. 358-361
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon New Australian Stories Aviva Tuffield (editor), Carlton North : Scribe , 2009 Z1547254 2009 anthology short story (taught in 2 units) Carlton North : Scribe , 2009 pg. 293-297
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Best Australian Stories 2009 Delia Falconer (editor), Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2009 Z1652008 2009 anthology short story extract (taught in 2 units) 'After searching high and low for the year's outstanding short fiction, Delia Falconer has selected masterful stories from some of the country's best-loved authors and exciting work from the up-and-coming. 'Stories don't have the novel's luxury of great swathes of time, its layerings, its wanderings, its counterpoints,' she observes. 'Instead, they must cut to the bone straightaway ... Sometimes they capture a shift in a whole world; at other times they put into words a mood or tone that we might not have seen, until it appears so beautifully before us. ' With their wry humor, quiet intensity and elegant economy, these stories display Australian writing at its diverse, unpredictable best.' (Publication summary) Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2009 pg. 276-280
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Something Special, Something Rare : Outstanding Short Stories by Australian Women Black Inc. (editor), Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2015 8162994 2015 anthology short story

    'Drawn from over a decade of Best Australian Stories, this collection presents outstanding short fiction by the country's finest female writers. Including tales of love, family, heartbreak and joy, it showcases the strength and diversity of writing by Australian women. From the dramatic to the hilarious, these stories will enchant, move and delight the reader. (Publication summary)

         Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2015     pg. 92-95
VIEW PUBLICATION DETAILS FOR ALL VERSIONS ()
Last amended 23 Sep 2015 13:11:39
Informit * Subscription service. Check your library.
Subjects:
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X