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The Lap Pool single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1978... 1978 The Lap Pool
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Alternative title: 小泳池
Language: Chinese
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Foreign Literature and Art 外国文艺 / Wai Guo Wen Yi Shanghai : 山东文艺出版社 , 1978- 11595774 1978 periodical

    "Foreign Literature" is a purely literary publication that focuses on contemporary foreign literature. Published by the Shanghai Translation Publishing House, it has focused, systematic translation of contemporary foreign literature and art (literature, and art) works and theories, introduced representative schools, reflecting the new foreign literature trends and dynamics.

         Shanghai : 山东文艺出版社 , 1978-     pg. 16-32
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    y separately published work icon Meanjin The Long Arm; On Crime and Law vol. 66 no. 3 2007 Z1435868 2007 periodical issue 2007 pg. 162-177
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    y separately published work icon The Rip Robert Drewe , Camberwell : Hamish Hamilton , 2008 Z1522488 2008 selected work short story

    'Set against the backdrop of the Australian coast, as randomly and imminently violent as it is beautiful, The Rip reveals the fragility of relationships between husbands and wives, children and parents, friends and lovers.

    'You will find yourself set down in a modern Garden of Eden with a disgraced Adam seeking his Eve; sharing the fears of a small boy in a coastal classroom as a tsunami approaches; in an English gaol cell with an Australian surfer on drug charges; and witnessing a middle-aged farmer contemplating murdering the hippie who stole his wife.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb (Penguin ed.)

         Camberwell : Hamish Hamilton , 2008     pg. 1-36
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    y separately published work icon The Best Australian Stories 2009 Delia Falconer (editor), Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2009 Z1652008 2009 anthology short story extract (taught in 2 units) 'After searching high and low for the year's outstanding short fiction, Delia Falconer has selected masterful stories from some of the country's best-loved authors and exciting work from the up-and-coming. 'Stories don't have the novel's luxury of great swathes of time, its layerings, its wanderings, its counterpoints,' she observes. 'Instead, they must cut to the bone straightaway ... Sometimes they capture a shift in a whole world; at other times they put into words a mood or tone that we might not have seen, until it appears so beautifully before us. ' With their wry humor, quiet intensity and elegant economy, these stories display Australian writing at its diverse, unpredictable best.' (Publication summary) Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2009 pg. 11-29
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    y separately published work icon The Best Australian Stories : A Ten Year Collection Collingwood : Black Inc. , 2011 Z1771915 2011 anthology short story (taught in 1 units) Collingwood : Black Inc. , 2011 pg. 55-71
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