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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 The Red Pearl and Other Stories
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'The Red Pearl and Other Stories is an invitation from an idiosyncratic but endearing bunch of misfits and outsiders to travel to emotional sites just beyond our GPS coordinates. Welcome to Kuala Lumpur, Paris, Namche Bazaar - but also to unnamed, weirdly recognizable spaces of desire, anxiety or nightmare. Here, race riots unfold in 1960s Malaysia; an 'Asian' student faces 'Go home' graffiti on incessant train rides around Sydney; dogs in love twirl and tumble in the high mountains of Nepal. Here, too, is the parallel Gothic world of the Shanghai Bar, where an Orientalist seductress bites back; and the concrete world of expatriate Kuala Lumpur where Dragon Princes and spirit travellers can also be found. Here is a vision of Sydney at its mythical best: golden, shaded in jacaranda blossoms and offering benevolent asylum to an array of newcomers and old hands. Moving between genres and cultures, the stories in this collection capture moments of intensity and yearning, points of turbulence or rest in the lives of characters who inhabit a globalised world. Their quest is for new arrangements of family, home, friendship and workplaces; new ways of living and loving in a rapidly changing world. The Red Pearl and Other Stories is award-winning novelist Beth Yahp's first collection of short stories.' (Publication summary)

Exhibitions

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Notes

  • "This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body." -- Publication details.

  • Dedication:

    For my sisters

    Amy, Sarah and Rosemary

    And my other sisters

    Margo, Kyle and Cath

    And my lovely nieces

    Kaya and Reina

Contents

* Contents derived from the Newtown, Marrickville - Camperdown area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,:Vagabond Press , 2017 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Other Room, Beth Yahp , single work short story fantasy (p. 9-14)
In 1969, Beth Yahp , single work short story (p. 15-27)
Homeland, Beth Yahp , single work prose (p. 28-39)
The Red Pearl, Beth Yahp , single work short story (p. 40-55)
The Pursuit of Happiness, Beth Yahp , single work short story young adult

Based on the idea of happiness as a fundamental, constitutional right, and the effect this pursuit might have on others.

(p. 55-74)
Point of No Return, Beth Yahp , single work short story (p. 75-115)
Thursdays, Beth Yahp , single work short story (p. 116-128)
The Beautiful Hour, Beth Yahp , extract novel (p. 129-147)
So We Walked Down Abercrombie Street, Beth Yahp , single work short story (p. 147-164)
On Rose Street, Beth Yahp , single work short story (p. 165-171)
Time and Again, Beth Yahp , single work short story (p. 172-194)
Dogs in Love, Beth Yahp , single work short story (p. 195-211)
Afterword :Occasional Stories That Scrape at the Heart, Nicholas Jose , single work essay (p. 212-217)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Newtown, Marrickville - Camperdown area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Vagabond Press , 2017 .
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      Extent: 222p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 3 July 2017

      ISBN: 978-1-922181-51-0
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