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'Rien meets Mark at St Mary's Home for Children. They experience passion, loss and hope as they begin a tenuous but tender relationship and a new life beyond the Home. While Mark dreams of machines to repair the fractured world, Rien writes stories of failing to help her recover the missing events of her past. Their friend Dog Boy escapes from St Mary's to embark on a rugged journey that will dramatically alter each of their lives. Mireille Juchau writes with a strong spare poetic style. In creating three unusual characters with distinctly inventive inner lives, she raises questions about the nature of being and individuality, and highlights the enduring power of the imagination in a world with little time for difference, or patience for sensitivity.' (Publication summary)
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Dedication: for Gladys, Bob, Gerda and George
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Epigraph:
There are times when the child seems not yet to have crossed into the world
Despite having entered a body
Memory a wind passing through the blood trees within us
Someone was supposed to have come
–Carolyn Forche, 'The Recording Angel'
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Burnt Children
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , Winter vol. 21 no. 3 2002; (p. 68-69)
— Review of Machines for Feeling 2001 single work novel -
Mars Bars and Ecstasy
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 167 2002; (p. 108-110)
— Review of All That False Instruction : A Novel of Lesbian Love 1975 single work novel ; Machines for Feeling 2001 single work novel ; Room Temperature 2001 single work novel ; Parachute Silk : Friends, Food, Passion : A Novel in Letters 2001 single work novel ; After Cynthia 2001 single work novel ; Fish Lips 2001 single work novel -
Paperbacks
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 17 February 2002; (p. 51)
— Review of Machines for Feeling 2001 single work novel ; Regret 2002 single work novel ; Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence 1996 single work biography ; Finding Ullagundahi Island 2001 single work novel -
Fringe Society
2001-2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January no. 237 2001-2002; (p. 53-54)
— Review of The Artist Is a Thief 2001 single work novel ; Machines for Feeling 2001 single work novel ; Goddess and the Galaxy Boy 2001 single work novel -
In Short
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8-9 December 2001; (p. 15)
— Review of Bush Oranges 2001 single work novel ; Machines for Feeling 2001 single work novel
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Burnt Children
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , Winter vol. 21 no. 3 2002; (p. 68-69)
— Review of Machines for Feeling 2001 single work novel -
Fine Line Between Elegant and Over the Top
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 20 October 2001; (p. 6)
— Review of Machines for Feeling 2001 single work novel -
In Short
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8-9 December 2001; (p. 15)
— Review of Bush Oranges 2001 single work novel ; Machines for Feeling 2001 single work novel -
Fringe Society
2001-2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January no. 237 2001-2002; (p. 53-54)
— Review of The Artist Is a Thief 2001 single work novel ; Machines for Feeling 2001 single work novel ; Goddess and the Galaxy Boy 2001 single work novel -
Paperbacks
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 17 February 2002; (p. 51)
— Review of Machines for Feeling 2001 single work novel ; Regret 2002 single work novel ; Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence 1996 single work biography ; Finding Ullagundahi Island 2001 single work novel
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