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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Gaps in the Hickory
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form y separately published work icon Gaps in the Hickory Maxine Beneba Clarke , Erik Jensen , Australia : Carver Films , 2018 13198672 2018 single work film/TV

'Ella, eight and African-American, lives in a tiny flat in New Orleans. Her favourite person to visit is Delores, in her sixties and greying, to hear stories about Delores and her old friend Izzy. Carter is Izzy's ten-year old grandchild, living in Newmarket, Mississippi, unaware that his life will soon collide with Ella and Delores in a heartbreaking and inspirational way. Adapted from Maxine Beneba Clarke's acclaimed short story of the same name.'

Source: Screen Australia funding approvals.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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    y separately published work icon Foreign Soil Maxine Beneba Clarke , Sydney : Hachette Australia , 2014 6593323 2014 selected work short story

    'In this collection of award-winning stories, Melbourne writer Maxine Beneba Clarke has given a voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, the downtrodden and the mistreated. It will challenge you, it will have you by the heartstrings. This is contemporary fiction at its finest.' (Publication summary)

         Sydney : Hachette Australia , 2014     pg. 121-172
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    United States of America (USA),
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    Americas,
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