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'She and six classmates have announced they'll be joining the nuns when they leave school at the end of the year. The apparent finality of this collective repudiation of the world, in a weird sort of way, is cool.
'First-born, eldest daughter, Little Mother to her siblings, Irish-Australian, brainy schoolgirl at the time the Beaumont children vanish ... will the real Carmel please stand up? When it comes time to venture into love and other alternatives, mutinous forces undermine her confidence, and malevolence turns to violence. Now she's starring in her own horror-home-movie.
'Room Temperature, a mosaic of subtle allusion and canny observation, is a novel about memory, time, and the struggle to break away from family pathology.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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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 -
Behind the Ordinariness
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bunyip , 24 April 2002; (p. 38)
— Review of Room Temperature 2001 single work novel -
Journeys of Many Lifetimes
2001-2002
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 18 December - 8 January vol. 119 no. 6306 2001-2002; (p. 106-107)
— Review of Four Fires 2001 single work novel ; Lime Bar 2001 single work novel ; World of Chickens 2001 single work novel ; Room Temperature 2001 single work novel -
Paperbacks
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 18 November 2001; (p. 42)
— Review of Room Temperature 2001 single work novel ; The Red Thread 2000 single work novel ; Confessions of a Clay Man 2001 single work novel -
Poetic Impressions of a Catholic Upbringing
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 10 November 2001; (p. 22)
— Review of Room Temperature 2001 single work novel
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CoverNotes
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 7 October 2001; (p. 19)
— Review of Tyger, Tyger 2001 single work novel ; Room Temperature 2001 single work novel -
Tiers Before Bedtime
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 27-28 October 2001; (p. 10)
— Review of Room Temperature 2001 single work novel ; Swimming with the Jellyfish 2001 single work novel -
Hot and Cold Breezes Through the Clutter
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 10-11 November 2001; (p. 12)
— Review of Room Temperature 2001 single work novel -
Poetic Impressions of a Catholic Upbringing
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 10 November 2001; (p. 22)
— Review of Room Temperature 2001 single work novel -
Paperbacks
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 18 November 2001; (p. 42)
— Review of Room Temperature 2001 single work novel ; The Red Thread 2000 single work novel ; Confessions of a Clay Man 2001 single work novel
