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Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 Geography
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Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Geography Emily Ballou , ( dir. Tony Ayres ) Australia : 2010 Z1679236 2010 single work film/TV

Adapted from Sophie Cunningham's best-selling novel, Geography is a contemporary love story about young Australian Catherine and older LA-based ex-pat Michael.

Notes

  • Dedication: for Virginia

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Related Works

Geography Sophie Cunningham , 2003 extract novel (Geography)
— Appears in: The Best Australian Stories 2003 2003; (p. 151-160)
Untitled Sophie Cunningham , 2005 extract novel (Geography)
— Appears in: Sunset : Penguin Australian Summer Stories 2005; (p. 41-54)
Geography Sophie Cunningham , 2006 extract novel (Geography)
— Appears in: Encounters : Modern Australian Short Stories 2006; (p. 71-82)
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Works about this Work

On Losing One’s Say : Sophie Cunningham and the Geography of Desire Peter D. Mathews , 2023 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 252 2023; (p. 3-13) Sophie Cunningham's debut novel. Geography (2004) opens with its protagonist Catherine watching a green sea turtle covering its eggs on a beach in Tangalla, Sri Lanka. His anxiety about the turtle's unborn young concentrates around her own fears and insecurities: -It is hard, but necessary, to feel hopeful that It will survive- (1-2). In Sri Lanka, Catherine befriends fellow traveller Ruby. to whom she recounts the long story of her damaged life throughout the novel. Tanaka is not only the starting point of the narrative, but also of a cathartic process of healing. forgiveness and sexual discovery that shifts constantly between Australia. the United States, India and Sri Lanka in a vast geography of desire signalled by the novel's title. Today Cunningham is regarded as a preeminent ecological author. combining serious concerns about the degradation of the planet with a political awareness of the "geographical articulations' (30), as Edward Said puts it. that define the contested space created by the legacy of colonisation. These ideas are framed by an affective topology articulated long before she began writing about ecology, and it is the refinement of these ideas over time that this essay sets out to explore.' (Introduction) 
 
Aborigines, Sharks and Australian Accents : On Australian Writing Jo Case , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings , July no. 6 2011; (p. 41-51)

'Jo Case talks to influential writers, publishers and critics about that often frustrating definition of 'Australia' literature.' (Editor's abstract)
Sex and Sad Spaces Gaylene Perry , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 17 no. 2 2005; (p. 55-57)
— Review of The Bride Stripped Bare Nikki Gemmell , 2003 single work novel ; Geography Sophie Cunningham , 2004 single work novel
Loving and Killing Maya Linden , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 268 2005; (p. 43)
— Review of Geography Sophie Cunningham , 2004 single work novel
First Novel Deftly Investigates Obession Erica Keiko Iseri , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 18 no. 2 2004; (p. 181-182)
— Review of Geography Sophie Cunningham , 2004 single work novel
Lust Never Sleeps Sally Blakeney , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 13 April vol. 122 no. 6416 2004; (p. 62)
— Review of Geography Sophie Cunningham , 2004 single work novel
Sexual Healing Juliette Hughes , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 9-10 April 2004; (p. 5)
— Review of Geography Sophie Cunningham , 2004 single work novel ; Levin's God Roger Wells , 2004 single work novel
Wrestling with the Genre Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 260 2004; (p. 49)
— Review of Geography Sophie Cunningham , 2004 single work novel
Sex and the Somebody Ceridwen Spark , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 10 April 2004; (p. 3a)
— Review of Geography Sophie Cunningham , 2004 single work novel
Mapped Out: The Anxieties of Generation Sex Cath Kenneally , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 17-18 April 2004; (p. 8-9)
— Review of Geography Sophie Cunningham , 2004 single work novel
Girl's Own Story Janet Hawley , 2004 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 17 April 2004; (p. 34-35, 37)
Books : Stripped Bare Aviva Tuffield , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 2 May 2004; (p. 23)
Mad in India Sophie Cunningham , 2004 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 63 no. 2 2004; (p. 56-63) Wanderings in India : Australian Perspectives 2012; (p. 167-174) Sophie Cunningham explains her obsession with India and why she wants to return.
Has Australian Writing Lost the Plot Edwina Preston , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: State of the Arts , July - September 2004; (p. 32-34,36,38)
Aborigines, Sharks and Australian Accents : On Australian Writing Jo Case , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings , July no. 6 2011; (p. 41-51)

'Jo Case talks to influential writers, publishers and critics about that often frustrating definition of 'Australia' literature.' (Editor's abstract)
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Awards

2005 commended Commonwealth Writers Prize — South East Asia and South Pacific Region — Best First Book
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    United States of America (USA),
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