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3 13 y separately published work icon Blue Skies Helen Hodgman , ( trans. Valentina Rossini with title Tasmania Blues ) Rome : Socrates , 2016 Z271751 1976 single work novel (taught in 3 units)

'A young wife and mother watches a clock that seems forever stuck at three-in-the-afternoon. Her neighbour obsesses over the front lawn, and the women at the local beach chatter about knitting patterns. Her husband didn't come home last night.

'She lives for Tuesdays and Thursdays, when the baby is with Mother-in-law and she can escape to a less humdrum life. Jonathan, man about town, is Tuesday. Ben, a freethinking artist, is Thursday.

'But Jonathan is in serious trouble, and Thursdays are turning sour. Very sour.

'A brilliant, acerbic tale of a crack-up in stultifying suburbia, Blue Skies marked the emergence of a unique voice in Australian fiction.' (Abstract for 2011 publication from Text Publishing website.)
3 2 y separately published work icon The Rain Dancers Karin Mainwaring , Sydney Theatre Company (publisher), 1990 ( trans. Guido Bulla with title I danzatori della pioggia ) Rome : Socrates , 2000 Z1239388 1990 single work drama
— Appears in: Sydney Theatre Company : Plays 1 1998; (p. 121-188)

'Set among quirky Australians somewhere in the red centre...Dan returns to an outback station after an absence of 25 years which began when he left to register the birth of his daughter.' (Production summary)
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