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Issue Details: First known date: 1987... 1987 Messages from Chaos
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'On her twenty-ninth birthday, after a decade of obsession with somebody else's husband, Anna Lawrence is forced to admit that she actually is the person she was growing up to be. There may never be tickets to New York, or fame ... or even a husband. Susan Johnson writes of that generation of women raised between the 50s and the 80s.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Harper and Row , 1987 .
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      Extent: 163p.
      ISBN: 0063120917
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Collins , 1988 .
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      Extent: 163p.
      ISBN: 0732224144 (pbk.)
    • Port Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Minerva , 1990 .
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      Extent: 163p.
      ISBN: 1863300368 (pbk.)
    • Kew, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Minerva , 1997 .
      Extent: 163p.
      Note/s:
      • Reprint (with new ISBN and updated author information on page preceding t.p.) of the ed. published: Port Melbourne : Minerva, 1990.
      ISBN: 1863305947
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Works about this Work

Truth or Dare Susan Johnson , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 26 - 27 May 2012; (p. 10-12)

'Some novelist court strife by pilfering character traits and plotlines from friends and lovers - but how far is too far?' Susan Johnson.
Susan Johnson Interviewed by Sandra Hogan Sandra Hogan (interviewer), 2011 single work interview
— Appears in: Perilous Adventures , vol. 11 no. 1 2011;
First Voice : Susan Johnson looks Back on the Writing of Her First Novel Susan Johnson , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 25 February 2006; (p. 27)
Sorry, George, I'm Not Really Like That Susan Johnson , 1996 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 7 September 1996; (p. 11s) Susan Johnson 2001-;
The Language of Subversion: Discourses of Desire in "Painted Woman", "The Children's Bach", and "Messages from Chaos" Philippa Kelly , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , March vol. 54 no. 1 1994; (p. 143-156)
Not Being Unique is Absorbing Tracy Ryan , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 8 August, 1987; (p. 7)
— Review of Messages from Chaos Susan Johnson , 1987 single work novel
Being the Narrator's Best Girlfriend : The Reader as Confidante Brenda Walker , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 96 1987; (p. 27-28)
— Review of Messages from Chaos Susan Johnson , 1987 single work novel
The Discomfort of Unfulfilled Expectations Katharine England , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 19 September 1987; (p. 8)
— Review of Messages from Chaos Susan Johnson , 1987 single work novel
Sadness Marks the Shift to Adulthood Humphrey McQueen , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25 July 1987; (p. 46)
— Review of Messages from Chaos Susan Johnson , 1987 single work novel
[Review] Messages from Chaos D. J. O'Hearn , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 132)
— Review of Messages from Chaos Susan Johnson , 1987 single work novel
First Voice : Susan Johnson looks Back on the Writing of Her First Novel Susan Johnson , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 25 February 2006; (p. 27)
Susan Johnson Interviewed by Sandra Hogan Sandra Hogan (interviewer), 2011 single work interview
— Appears in: Perilous Adventures , vol. 11 no. 1 2011;
Truth or Dare Susan Johnson , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 26 - 27 May 2012; (p. 10-12)

'Some novelist court strife by pilfering character traits and plotlines from friends and lovers - but how far is too far?' Susan Johnson.
The Language of Subversion: Discourses of Desire in "Painted Woman", "The Children's Bach", and "Messages from Chaos" Philippa Kelly , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , March vol. 54 no. 1 1994; (p. 143-156)
Sorry, George, I'm Not Really Like That Susan Johnson , 1996 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 7 September 1996; (p. 11s) Susan Johnson 2001-;
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