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Issue Details: First known date: 1987... 1987 Moving Out
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Dislocations Janette Turner Hospital , Toronto : McClelland and Stewart , 1986 Z1037396 1986 selected work short story

    'Reaching across continents, these allusive, richly textured stories are unified by moments of dislocation in which certainties are eclipsed by unfamiliar terrain. A last, transforming embrace between Indian lovers heralds their separate journeys into arranged marriages; an elderly woman discovers a kinship with her neighbour through their mutual isolation; a young woman's beauty is ravaged by fire; a schoolteacher, fettered by responsibility, learns from her brash students during a Queensland summer heady with the smell of sugar cane; a decaying amaryllis plant mirrors the pain of the artist who obsessively sketches it, and a woman devastated by her friend's death, is shocked by her own secret exultation in living.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb (Virago ed.)

    St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1987
    pg. 43-56
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Collected Stories 1970-1995 Janette Turner Hospital , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1995 Z201489 1995 selected work short story St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1995 pg. 32-44
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Making Connections : Six Australian Short Story Writers Brian Keyte (editor), Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1997 Z221043 1997 anthology short story criticism

    The stories chosen chart the emotions and the experiences of human beings living at particular times and in particular places. Collected as the landmark of a new millennium approached, the stories represent an interest at that time in past and future.

    Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1997
    pg. 130-141
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