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Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 Charades
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'From the subtropical lushness of Queensland’s Tamborine Rainforest to the claustrophobic bedroom of a Boston physicist, Janette Turner Hospital’s characters breathe an atmosphere of passion and suspense. Charade Ryan, an enigmatic story-spinning Scheherazade, searches for a way to unravel the long-held secrets of her family origins. As the narrative flits between the present and the past, and truth becomes increasingly subjective, Charade weaves a rich and textural tale out of the myths of her past. This vibrant, superbly crafted novel explores the elusive boundaries between existence and imagination, memory and truth.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (UQP, 2015 ed.)

Notes

  • Dedication: For my father and mother, who taught me that love is rich and redemptive whatever costumes and guises it wears.
  • Epigraph: 'May the legends of the men of old be lessons to the people of our time, so that a man may see those things which befell others beside himself: then he will honour and consider carefully the words and adventures of past peoples, and will reprove himself.' - The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night.
  • Epigraph: 'To modify the past is not to modify a single fact; it is to annul the consequences of that fact, which tends to be infinite. In other word, it involves the creation of two universal histories.' - Jorge Luis Borges: The Other Death
  • Epigraph: ' I intend to examine here the memories of extreme experiences, of injuries suffered or inflicted... Once again it must be observed, mournfully, that the injury cannot be healed: it extends through time....' - Primo Levi: The Drowned and the Saved.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,: University of Queensland Press , 1988 .
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      Extent: 345p.
      Reprinted: 1989 , 1990 , 1991 , 1995
      ISBN: 0702221988 (pbk.), 0702221562
    • Toronto, Ontario,
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      Bantam Books ,
      1989 .
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      Extent: 291p.
      ISBN: 059301622X, 553053469, 9780553053463
    • London,
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      Sydney, New South Wales,: Bantam Press ,
      1989 .
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      Extent: 291p.
      ISBN: 059301622X (hbk.), 9780593016220
    • Toronto, Ontario,
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      McClelland-Bantam ,
      1990 .
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      Extent: 301p.
      Edition info: A Bantam-Seal book
      ISBN: 0770423523
    • Camden, London,
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      Virago ,
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      Extent: 291p.
      Reprinted: 1994 , 1995
      ISBN: 1853811696
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      Bantam Books ,
      1990 .
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      Extent: 301p.
      Description: illus.
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      • A Bantam paperback edition, February 1990.
      ISBN: 055328505X (pbk.)
    • St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,: University of Queensland Press , 2015 .
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      Extent: 326p.
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      • Publication date: 1 October 2015
      ISBN: 9780702255960
      Series: y separately published work icon UQP Modern Classics St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2013-2017 8023624 2013 series - publisher novel
Language: Dutch
    • Amsterdam,
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      Furie ,
      1991 .
      Extent: 393p.
      ISBN: 9071035387, 9789071035388

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In this groundbreaking work of literary criticism, David Callahan signposts and analyses the major themes scattered throughout Janette Turner Hospital's writing. Rainforest Narratives is the perfect companion to her fiction for readers and scholars alike.' -- Publisher description.

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— Appears in: Critique : Studies in Contemporary Fiction , Summer vol. 48 no. 4 2007; (p. 363-380)
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