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- Preface, single work criticism (p. 5-[8])
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Introduction : A Cartload of Clay,
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Kinnane reviews the narrative structure and technique of the novel and the circumstances of its creation.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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The Australian Book to Read Next : A Cartload of Clay by George Johnston
2020
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— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 6 July 2020;'I frequently reread the Australian novels of my youth – and few more so than George Johnston’s autobiographical “Meredith Trilogy” of My Brother Jack, Clean Straw for Nothing and A Cartload of Clay.' (Introduction)
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Charmain Clift and George Johnston, Hydra 1960 : The 'Lost' Photographs of James Burke
2014
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— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 73 no. 1 2014; (p. 18-37)'In one of her many essays, Charmian Clift writes of the melancholic experience of feeling like a photograph. She has been asked to address a group of students at Wollongong High School, a school she had attended, and in preparing her speech she turns to a photograph that appears in the school's fiftieth-anniversary commemorative booklet. The photograph depicts a class from Clift's time at the school, 'formally posed with the boys lined up behind the girls and their hands resting on the girls' shoulders' ('On Turning slightly Sepia', p. 48 (see References below)), and as photographs do it evokes in Clift's memory small details that are not evidenced in the image itself: 'I can still see one of those girls arched in a perfect swallow dive, and remember precisely a collar of little pearl buttons on a blue crepe dress that another of them wore to an end-of-term dance that year'(48). The photograph also prompts Clift to consider how different her teenage circumstances were from those of the students she is to speak to, their faces shining with the confidence that faith in the goodness of the future affords. Before those faces now momentarily turned to her, she thinks of herself as the past, and wonders, 'if they realized that standing up before them I knew myself to be curling at the edges and turning slightly sepia' (51).' (Publication abstract)
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2008
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 19 January 2008; (p. 16) -
'Before It is Too Late' : George Johnston and the Doppler Effect
1991
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— Appears in: Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada , Spring no. 5 1991; (p. 115-130) -
Growing Up : Young Ladies' Trials Through the Ages
1990
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13 January 1990; (p. 62)
— Review of A Cartload of Clay : A Novel 1971 single work novel ; The Delinquents 1962 single work novel ; Clean Straw for Nothing : A Novel 1969 single work novel
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Richness and Ultimate Insight
1990
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 25 March 1990; (p. 26)
— Review of An Imaginary Life : A Novel 1978 single work novel ; Fabulous Nobodies 1989 single work novel ; Clean Straw for Nothing : A Novel 1969 single work novel ; A Cartload of Clay : A Novel 1971 single work novel -
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1971
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 9 October 1971; (p. 18)
— Review of A Cartload of Clay : A Novel 1971 single work novel -
The Mischiefs of Time
1971
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— Appears in: The Bulletin , 23 October vol. 93 no. 4778 1971; (p. 62-63)
— Review of A Cartload of Clay : A Novel 1971 single work novel -
[Review] Summer of the Red Wolf
1971
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— Appears in: The Australian , 16 October 1971; (p. 18)
— Review of A Cartload of Clay : A Novel 1971 single work novel ; Summer of the Red Wolf 1971 single work novel -
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1971
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 16 October 1971; (p. 15)
— Review of A Cartload of Clay : A Novel 1971 single work novel -
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2008
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 19 January 2008; (p. 16) -
'Before It is Too Late' : George Johnston and the Doppler Effect
1991
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— Appears in: Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada , Spring no. 5 1991; (p. 115-130) -
Biography and Fiction : George Johnston's Meredith Trilogy and Garry Kinane's Biography
1988
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— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 13 no. 3 1988; (p. 357-364) -
The Evolution of George Johnston's David Meredith
1983
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— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 11 no. 2 1983; (p. 162-170) -
Concerning "A Cartload of Clay"
1971
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— Appears in: The Age , 2 October 1971; (p. 11) The Advertiser , 16 October 1971; (p. 21) The Sydney Morning Herald , 25 September 1971; (p. 19) Martin Johnston : Selected Poems and Prose 1993; (p. 161-165)
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