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1 32 y separately published work icon Isobars Janette Turner Hospital , Louisiana : Louisiana State University Press , 1991 Z454509 1990 selected work short story

'Themes of desire, memory, loss and the various guises of damage, are woven into stories that cross time and continents, like isobars of the psyche, presenting a variety of characters, each caught in moments of crisis and illumination.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Virago ed.).
2 31 y separately published work icon Dislocations Janette Turner Hospital , Louisiana : Louisiana State University Press , 1987 Z1037396 1986 selected work short story

'Reaching across continents, these allusive, richly textured stories are unified by moments of dislocation in which certainties are eclipsed by unfamiliar terrain. A last, transforming embrace between Indian lovers heralds their separate journeys into arranged marriages; an elderly woman discovers a kinship with her neighbour through their mutual isolation; a young woman's beauty is ravaged by fire; a schoolteacher, fettered by responsibility, learns from her brash students during a Queensland summer heady with the smell of sugar cane; a decaying amaryllis plant mirrors the pain of the artist who obsessively sketches it, and a woman devastated by her friend's death, is shocked by her own secret exultation in living.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Virago ed.)
1 y separately published work icon The Southern Review 1935 Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1935- Z1808513 1935 periodical (2 issues) 'The Southern Review publishes fiction, poetry, critical essays, interviews, book reviews, and excerpts from novels in progress, with emphasis on contemporary literature in the United States and abroad. Poems and fiction are selected with careful attention to craftsmanship and technique and to the seriousness of the subject matter. Although willing to publish experimental writing that appears to have a valid artistic purpose, The Southern Review avoids extremism and sensationalism. Critical essays and book reviews exhibit a thoughtful and sometimes severe awareness of the necessity of literary standards in our time. Art reproductions—colour or black and white—of a wide range—paintings, photography, prints, sculpture—are selected on the basis of engaging content and style.' (Source: Publisher's website).
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