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1 2 y separately published work icon Always Liza to Me : A Memoir for My Silent Sister Cecilia Rice , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2009 Z1597148 2009 single work biography

'Always Liza to Me is the story of the Rice family, and of Liza, their severely mentally-retarded eldest daughter. It's a story about what it was like growing up in a large, rowdy household forever in the thrall of this unknowable, unreachable child.

'When she was small Cecilia, one of Liza's sisters, always believed she would not survive to adulthood, that she would never be her "problem". But she did survive. With warmth, wisdom and humor, Cecilia reveals how her family came to think of "the Liza problem" as theirs and how, through the passing of time and a mysterious process of acceptance and forgiveness, their fears and resentment turned into fierce loyalty and abiding love.' (From the publisher's webiste.)
1 David Williamson : Plays into Films Cecilia Rice , 1981 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cinema Papers , no. 32 1981; (p. 123-127) 'What happens to a playwright's style when he turnes scriptwriter and adapts his own works. David Williamson has written the screenplays for four film adaptations, but they were directed by three people who interpreted the elements of his style quite differently.' (Cecilia Rice).
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