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Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 Sixty Lights
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'Sixty Lights is the captivating chronicle of Lucy Strange, an independent girl growing up in the Victorian world. From her childhood in Australia through to her adolescence in England and Bombay and finally to London, Lucy is fascinated by light and by the new photographic technology. Her perception of the world is passionate and moving, revealed in a series of frozen images captured in the camera of her mind's eye showing her feelings about love, life and loss. In this confident, finely woven and intricate novel Jones has created an unforgettable character in Lucy; visionary, gifted and exuberant, she touches the lives of all who know her.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: For my brothers, Peter and Kevin Jones.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Harvill Press ,       2004 .
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      Extent: 249p.
      ISBN: 1843431963 (pbk.)
    • London,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Vintage UK ,       2005 .
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      Extent: 249p.p.
      ISBN: 9780099472032, 0099472031
    • London,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Vintage UK ,       2013 .
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      Extent: 256p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 31st October 2013
      ISBN: 9781448104901 (ebk)
Alternative title: La memoria de la luz
Language: Spanish
    • Barcelona,
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      Spain,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Roca Editorial ,       2005 .
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      Extent: 282p.
      ISBN: 8496284638
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  • Also braille and sound recording.
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Related Works

Shards of the Orphan Gail Jones , 2005 extract novel (Sixty Lights)
— Appears in: The Age , 24 January 2005; (p. 4-5)
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Works about this Work

Gail Jones' Novel Modernism : Sixty Lights and Literary Tradition James Gourley , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: Inner and Outer Worlds : Gail Jones' Fiction 2022;
Bioluminescence : Materiality, Metaphor and Trace in Sixty Lights Elizabeth McMahon , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: Inner and Outer Worlds : Gail Jones' Fiction 2022;
A Metaphysical Meeting Place : Sixty Lights by Gail Jones Irini Savvides , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Like an Australian Writer 2021;
The Mobility of Identity : Home, Travel and Intercultural Fort\da in Gail Jones’s Sixty Lights Zhang Chengcheng , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Contemporary Foreign Literature , no. 2 2021; (p. 144-150)

'The Australian writer Gail Jones excels at "transnational writing" and Sixty Lights is one prominent example. The novel explores the themes of home, travel and "intercultural fort\da" by highlighting the fluidity of identity. Lucy changes her "home" frequently only to showcase the difference of her identity, and her three journeys across the ocean construct her identity within the sameness. Hence Lucy carries out the practice of "intercultural fort\da," pursuing "the contact zone," which exemplifies "contradictory subject positions," "relationality," and "situationality." In this neo-Victorian novel, Lucy’s identity transcends space and time, dispelling the contradictions and anxieties in the construction of her cultural identity. She finally becomes a unique "global traveller" and a "woman of the future."' (Publication abstract)
Camera, Colony, Künstlerroman : Photography in Three Australian Novels Lucy Van , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , vol. 42 no. 1 2018; (p. 116-130)
Framed by Loss Liam Davison , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 August 2004; (p. 12)
— Review of Sixty Lights Gail Jones , 2004 single work novel
Humanity in Focus Through a Camera Lens James Bradley , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 21 August 2004; (p. 4)
— Review of Sixty Lights Gail Jones , 2004 single work novel
Artistic Light into the Future Bron Sibree , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 28 August 2004; (p. 7)
— Review of Sixty Lights Gail Jones , 2004 single work novel
Celluloid Path to Enlightenment James Ley , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4-5 September 2004; (p. 10)
— Review of Sixty Lights Gail Jones , 2004 single work novel
Strange Things Aviva Tuffield , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 264 2004; (p. 45)
— Review of Sixty Lights Gail Jones , 2004 single work novel
Writing in Light: Insights in a Flash Bron Sibree , 2004 single work biography
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 21 August 2004; (p. 1a-2a)
Reading Groups and Creative Writing Courses : The Year's Work in Fiction Susan Lever , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 49 no. 2004; (p. 164-175)
Dark Downs Thriller Stands Tall on Short List Rosemary Sorensen , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 22 April 2005; (p. 3)
Prize Fighters Booked for Crack at the Franklin Murray Waldren , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 22 April 2005; (p. 3)
Forgotten Novel Proves a Winner 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 21 May 2005; (p. 6)
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  • Ballarat, Ballarat area, Ballarat - Bendigo area, Victoria,
  • London,
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    England,
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    United Kingdom (UK),
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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    India,
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    South Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • 1800-1899
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