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David Parker David Parker i(A27297 works by) (a.k.a. David H. Parker; David Heywood Parker)
Born: Established: 5 Aug 1943 Adelaide, South Australia, ; Died: Ceased: 29 Oct 2015
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

With degrees from Adelaide and Flinders Universities and a DPhil(Oxon), David Parker has lectured in the English Department at the Australian National University and has been Chair of the English Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Building on Sand Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1988 Z356935 1988 single work novel 'Mysteriously abandoned by his mother at an early age, torn between his loyalties to a nostalgic, Victorian grandfather and to a warm, Irish-Catholic grandmother, and completely captivated by the adolescent capers of his heroic footballer uncle, the young Jude [Watson] is forced to create many names for himself before he is able to carve his own place in the uncertain, adult world. Jude Rowe-Jones, St Jude Hope of the Hopeless, JRJ the dashing naval officer, Judd the failed schoolboy-poet, Judah the biblical lion ... The names accumulate, but a question constantly echoes behind all these facades and all through Jude's life: "Who the hell are you?" His world is the growing city of Adelaide in the nineteen-fifties. It's postwar Australia, new waves of European migration, the advent of American pop culture with souped-up FJ Holdens, rock-and-roll beach parties and teenage jiving at the drive-in ... It is a world that is rapidly changing, very much like the shifting sand that Jude played in as a child.' (Dustcover)
1989 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award

Known archival holdings

University of New South Wales Australian Defence Force Academy Australian Defence Force Academy Library (ACT)
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