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'It is 1979 and a teenage girl is charmed by a man she meets in a disco. Before long, like Alice through the looking glass, she tumbles into a world of strange and frightening characters. Desperate to escape, she takes us into the darkness and out again, delivering her tale with wit, warmth and furious zest.' Source: http://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/ (Sighted 03/05/2012).
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Reviewed briefly by Lucy Sussex in the Sunday Age, (4 December, 2011): M,19.
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Epigraph: Thank you for the things you bought me, thank you for the card/ Thank you for the things you taught me, when you hit me hard/ That love between two people must be based on understanding,/ Until that's true, you'll find your things all stacked out on the landing./ Surprise, surprise. Valentine's Day is over. Valentine's Day is Over. Billy Bragg
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Author Deb Kandelaars
2018
single work
column
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 13-19 October 2018;'The writer of Memoirs of a Suburban Girl on her long road out of a violent relationship. “There I am, right in the middle of my teenage years and suddenly in a serious relationship. A relationship that pushes away my other life. Being hit was beyond my world experience. I didn’t want it to happen again. I started treading a little bit more carefully, and that set up a power dynamic.' (Introduction)
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Places Without a Place : New Possibilities for 'Airport Fiction'
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: New Scholar , vol. 3 no. 2 2014; 'International flight provides a strange paradox: the modern jet passenger is plied with food and alcohol as if special, yet checked, monitored and identified as if a criminal. A long haul trip involves passing over time zones and countries (and borders and sovereignty), out of sync with day and night, and for much of the time without agency (literally belted into place, denied the usual electronic props of telephone and Internet). It is a place, or perhaps a non-place as defined by Marc Augé, ruled by the tension of being effectively guilty until you can demonstrate yourself innocent. Michel Foucault cited the boat or ship - 'a floating piece of space, a place without a place, that exists by itself, that is closed in on itself and at the same time is given over to the infinity of the sea' - as the 'heterotopia par excellence.' This paper argues that the modern jetliner is an even more intense heterotopia, further disorienting with speed and the blurring of borders and time zones (also creating what Foucault calls a heterochrony, or slice of time that is often linked to a heterotopy). This paper further argues the metastable space entered at an airport and beyond (Fuller and Harley 5) provides untapped possibilities in fiction - and supports this argument with extracts from an extended short story/ novella by Tony Davis set entirely within a trip from Sydney to Zurich.' (Publication abstract) -
Review : Memoirs of a Suburban Girl
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 27 no. 1 2013; (p. 113-114.)
— Review of Memoirs of a Suburban Girl : A Novel 2011 single work novel -
In Short : Fiction
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21-22 January 2012; (p. 42)
— Review of The Sleepers Almanac : No. 7 2011 anthology poetry short story ; Memoirs of a Suburban Girl : A Novel 2011 single work novel
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In Short : Fiction
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21-22 January 2012; (p. 42)
— Review of The Sleepers Almanac : No. 7 2011 anthology poetry short story ; Memoirs of a Suburban Girl : A Novel 2011 single work novel -
Review : Memoirs of a Suburban Girl
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 27 no. 1 2013; (p. 113-114.)
— Review of Memoirs of a Suburban Girl : A Novel 2011 single work novel -
Places Without a Place : New Possibilities for 'Airport Fiction'
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: New Scholar , vol. 3 no. 2 2014; 'International flight provides a strange paradox: the modern jet passenger is plied with food and alcohol as if special, yet checked, monitored and identified as if a criminal. A long haul trip involves passing over time zones and countries (and borders and sovereignty), out of sync with day and night, and for much of the time without agency (literally belted into place, denied the usual electronic props of telephone and Internet). It is a place, or perhaps a non-place as defined by Marc Augé, ruled by the tension of being effectively guilty until you can demonstrate yourself innocent. Michel Foucault cited the boat or ship - 'a floating piece of space, a place without a place, that exists by itself, that is closed in on itself and at the same time is given over to the infinity of the sea' - as the 'heterotopia par excellence.' This paper argues that the modern jetliner is an even more intense heterotopia, further disorienting with speed and the blurring of borders and time zones (also creating what Foucault calls a heterochrony, or slice of time that is often linked to a heterotopy). This paper further argues the metastable space entered at an airport and beyond (Fuller and Harley 5) provides untapped possibilities in fiction - and supports this argument with extracts from an extended short story/ novella by Tony Davis set entirely within a trip from Sydney to Zurich.' (Publication abstract) -
Author Deb Kandelaars
2018
single work
column
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 13-19 October 2018;'The writer of Memoirs of a Suburban Girl on her long road out of a violent relationship. “There I am, right in the middle of my teenage years and suddenly in a serious relationship. A relationship that pushes away my other life. Being hit was beyond my world experience. I didn’t want it to happen again. I started treading a little bit more carefully, and that set up a power dynamic.' (Introduction)
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