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Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 The Service of Clouds
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The Blue Mountains of Australia. Eureka Jones, a young pharmacist's assistant with 'historical eyes', falls in love with Harry Kitchings, a man who comes to town from some vague elsewhere to photograph clouds and the shadows they cast upon the land.

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Picador , 1997 .
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      Extent: 322p.
      Reprinted: 1997 Reprinted twice
      Note/s:
      • Dedication: For my mother and father, and Richard Harling.
      ISBN: 0330360272
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Farrar Straus and Giroux ,       1998 .
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      Extent: 322p.
      Reprinted: 1998
      Note/s:
      • Reprints of 1997 Australian Picador ed.
      ISBN: 0374261059
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Picador ,       1999 .
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      Note/s:
      • Reprint of 1997 Australian Picador ed.
      ISBN: 031220969X
Alternative title: Die Liebe zu den Wolken
Language: German
    • Frankfurt am Main,
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      Germany,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       S. Fischer Verlag ,       1999 .
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      Extent: 319p.
      ISBN: 3100204085
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Works about this Work

A Change in the Air : Literature, Bombs and Colonial Terror in Climate Literature Jack Kirne , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 247 2022; (p. 43-50)

'Reflecting on Hiroshima, 6 August 1945, Karen Barad writes :

'Time stopped. The internal mechanisms melted...Time died in a flash. Its demise captured in shadows: silhouettes of people, animals, plants, and objects, its last moment of existence emblazoned on walls. Never before was it possible to kill time, not like this. Atomic clocks. Doomsday clocks. The hands of time indeterminately positioned as creeping toward the midnight of human and more-than-human existence, moving, and no longer moving.' (Introduction)
Love and Vertigo : The Blue Mountains as Veranda in Australian Women's Writing Elizabeth Hicks , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 25 no. 2 2011; (p. 171-175) The Blue Mountains have often been used as a backdrop in Australian literature. Elizabeth Hicks looks at several of these texts by Australian women which were written during the fifteen years between 1987 and 2002, a period which loosley corresponds to theat of third-wave feminism.
The Earthed Sacred : Literary Imagination and the Sacred in Contemporary Australian Fiction Bill Ashcroft , Frances Devlin-Glass , Lyn McCredden , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Intimate Horizons : The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature 2009; (p. 287-318)
The Horizonal Sublime Bill Ashcroft , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 19 no. 2 2005; (p. 141-151) Discusses 'the ways in which the horizonal sublime, itself a post-colonial transformation of the Romantic view of place, has been transformed in contemporary writing'. (p.151)
First Voice : Delia Falconer Looks Back on the Writing of Her First Book Delia Falconer , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 12 November 2005; (p. 29)
Cloud is Cloud, or is It? Lisbet De Castro Lopo , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , Spring vol. 58 no. 3 1998; (p. 255-261)
— Review of Swallowing Clouds Lillian Ng , 1997 single work novel ; The Service of Clouds Delia Falconer , 1997 single work novel
Hydro Among the Clouds Leigh Dale , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 18 October 1997; (p. wkd 8)
— Review of The Service of Clouds Delia Falconer , 1997 single work novel
Head in the Clouds Rosie Scott , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18 October 1997; (p. 13s)
— Review of The Service of Clouds Delia Falconer , 1997 single work novel
Imagery as Abundant, as Ethereal as Clouds Lesley Lebkowicz , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 1 November 1997; (p. 24)
— Review of The Service of Clouds Delia Falconer , 1997 single work novel
First Fictions that Head Home and Away Janet Chimonyo , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 16 November 1997; (p. 14)
— Review of The Service of Clouds Delia Falconer , 1997 single work novel ; Matilde Waltzing Elise Valmorbida , 1997 single work novel
Falconer's Lure Janet Hawley , 2005 single work biography
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 25 June 2005; (p. 35-39)
First Voice : Delia Falconer Looks Back on the Writing of Her First Book Delia Falconer , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 12 November 2005; (p. 29)
The Horizonal Sublime Bill Ashcroft , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 19 no. 2 2005; (p. 141-151) Discusses 'the ways in which the horizonal sublime, itself a post-colonial transformation of the Romantic view of place, has been transformed in contemporary writing'. (p.151)
The Earthed Sacred : Literary Imagination and the Sacred in Contemporary Australian Fiction Bill Ashcroft , Frances Devlin-Glass , Lyn McCredden , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Intimate Horizons : The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature 2009; (p. 287-318)
Love and Vertigo : The Blue Mountains as Veranda in Australian Women's Writing Elizabeth Hicks , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 25 no. 2 2011; (p. 171-175) The Blue Mountains have often been used as a backdrop in Australian literature. Elizabeth Hicks looks at several of these texts by Australian women which were written during the fifteen years between 1987 and 2002, a period which loosley corresponds to theat of third-wave feminism.
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  • 1900s
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