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Epigraph:
They are alive and well somewhere,/ The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,/ And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait/ At the end to arrest it,/ And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. //All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, /And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
-Walt Witman
That all should change to ghost and glance and gleam, /And so transmuted stand beyond all change, /And we be poised between the unmoving dream /And the sole moving moment - this is strange. /Past all contrivance, word, or image, or sound, /Or silence, to express, that we who fall /Through time's long ruin should weave this phantom ground /And in its ghostly borders gather all. /There incorruptible the child plays still/ The lover waits beside the trysting tree /The good hour spans its heaven, and the ill, /Rapt in their silent immortality. /As in commemoration of a day /That having been can never pass away.
-Edwin Muir
For never was I not, nor thou, nor these kings; /Nor will any of us cease to be hereafter.
-Bhagavad-Gita
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Based loosely on the disappearance of the Beaumont Children in 1966.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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Ten Great Australian Beach Reads Set at the Beach
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 28 December 2018;
— Review of Floundering 2012 single work novel ; Puberty Blues 1979 single work novel ; Time's Long Ruin : A Novel 2008 single work novel ; Breath 2008 single work novel ; The Empty Beach 1983 single work novel ; The True Colour of the Sea 2018 selected work short story ; Atomic City 2013 single work novel ; Not Meeting Mr Right 2007 single work novel ; After January 1996 single work novel ; Bluebottle 2018 single work novel -
'A Dozy City' : Adelaide in J.M. Coetzee's Slow Man and Amy T. Matthew's End of the Night Girl
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Adelaide : A Literary City 2014; (p. 253-266) -
A World Without Books – Or Kindle? Words Simply Fail Me
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 17 November vol. 17 November no. 2013; (p. 86) -
A Novel Based on the 1966 Disappearance of the Beaumont Children
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 14 February 2012; (p. 22) -
The Year's Work in Fiction : 2010-2011
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 56 no. 1 2011; (p. 167-188)
— Review of Equator : A Novel 2010 single work novel ; Rocks in the Belly 2010 single work novel ; Traitor 2010 single work novel ; The Vintage and the Gleaning 2008 single work novel ; The Grand Hotel : A Novel 2010 single work novel ; What Is Left Over, After 2008 single work novel ; The Best Australian Stories 2010 2010 anthology short story extract ; Five Bells 2011 single work novel ; The Mary Smokes Boys 2010 single work novel ; Glissando : A Melodrama 2010 single work novel ; Below the Styx 2010 single work novel ; Indelible Ink 2010 single work novel ; When Colts Ran 2010 single work novel ; Bereft 2010 single work novel ; Time's Long Ruin : A Novel 2008 single work novel ; The Legacy 2010 single work novel ; That Deadman Dance 2010 single work novel
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[Review] Time's Long Ruin
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , March no. 361 2010; (p. 37)
— Review of Time's Long Ruin : A Novel 2008 single work novel -
Take Three
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 7 March 2010; (p. 26)
— Review of Time's Long Ruin : A Novel 2008 single work novel ; Keeping Faith 2010 single work novel ; Once on a Road 2010 single work novel -
Henry's Vantage
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 320 2010; (p. 14)
— Review of Time's Long Ruin : A Novel 2008 single work novel -
Nightmare in the Suburbs
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2-4 April 2010; (p. 38)
— Review of Time's Long Ruin : A Novel 2008 single work novel -
Lament for a Vanished Childhood World
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 10 April 2010; (p. 23)
— Review of Time's Long Ruin : A Novel 2008 single work novel -
Wake in Fright
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 23 January 2010; (p. 10-16) -
Beaumont Children Novel on Short List
2011
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 15 February 2011; (p. 13) -
A Novel Based on the 1966 Disappearance of the Beaumont Children
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 14 February 2012; (p. 22) -
A World Without Books – Or Kindle? Words Simply Fail Me
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 17 November vol. 17 November no. 2013; (p. 86) -
'A Dozy City' : Adelaide in J.M. Coetzee's Slow Man and Amy T. Matthew's End of the Night Girl
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Adelaide : A Literary City 2014; (p. 253-266)
Awards
- 2012 winner The National Year of Reading 2012 Our Story Collection — South Australia See NYOR Our Story winners.
- 2011 longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
- 2011 shortlisted South East Asia and South Pacific Region — Best Book
- 2008 winner Festival Awards for Literature (SA) Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature South Australian Literary Awards — Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award Won with manuscript title 'The Second Fouling Mark'
- Croydon, Charles Sturt area, Adelaide - Northwest, Adelaide, South Australia,
- Semaphore, Port Adelaide - Enfield area, Adelaide - Northwest, Adelaide, South Australia,
- 1960s