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- 19. An afterword
- 18. The goddess allows herself to be seen. But not forever; Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus (1980)
- 17. Tirra Lirra by the River
- 16. A place too big: Australia as a collection of regions
- 15. Style: often mentioned, less commonly analysed
- 14. Good, better, best/Never let it rest. Till your good is better/And your better best.
- 13. Names galore, and the need for disguise
- 12. Instead of mockery, a many-sided scrutiny
- 11. A Kangaroo still hopping around in our minds
- 10. Judith Wright: from The Moving Image to Fourth Quarter
- 9. Twyborn? Tri-born? Or some lives as they might have happened?
- 8. A master of prose because he knows he shares it
- 7. The living are few, Frank tells us, But The Dead Are Many
- 6. How the world failed the League of Nations, then began again
- 5. Another journey with another Frank
- 4. Questions of scale: a term in Geneva, starting in 1926
- 3. Capricornia
- 2. Strangely humble: The Tree of Man by Patrick White
- 20. Singing the country: a first look at Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
- 1. Gippsland’s first great book
- 19. Possession, dispossession, what about re-possession?
- 18. A desert song, or is it? Voss by Patrick White
- 17. What tree is that? Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
- Interlude 6: the otherness of Australia
- 16. Story and the effacement of story: Beverley Farmer’s The Bone House
- Interlude 5: some reasons for writing
- 15. A ring that’s lost; is there something better?
- 14. Tomorrow and Tomorrow: Sydney burns, and a future is revealed
- Interlude 4: something of a divide
- 13. The Eye of the Storm: but what is the storm?
- 12. A broth of gems; the sky without mother
- 11. Where certainty lies; his father’s world
- Interlude 3: Marshall and Porter, Alan and Hal
- 10. Sally Morgan’s My Place
- 9. The un-loving of Coonardoo
- Interlude 2: as far apart as ever
- 8. Keeping it in the family: one way to interpret the past
- 7. The teller of tales presents The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
- Interlude 1: two family sagas
- 6. Private Manning & Private Bourne: Her Privates We
- 5. Most theatrical when most personal
- 4. Judith Wright; the basis of our nation?
- 3. Habe Dank! A writer’s release
- 2. Jack and George: who owns a life?
- 1. Unfortunate affairs
- Category: Truthful Fictions
- Category: Well in the Shadow
- Category: Reflection
- Category: Story
- Category: Translation
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