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Sara Dowse Sara Dowse i(A36247 works by) (a.k.a. Dale Sara Dowse)
Born: Established: 1938 Chicago, Illinois,
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas,
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Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: 1958
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1 Then, Now and What Might Come : A Writer's Take Sara Dowse , 2023 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Women and Whitlam : Revisiting the Revolution 2023;
1 Women and Whitlam: Then, Now, and What Might Come Sara Dowse , 2023 extract autobiography (Women and Whitlam : Revisiting the Revolution)
— Appears in: Inside Story , March 2023;

'That era’s spirit of optimistic change has a message for the 2020s' 

1 The Art of a Memoir Sara Dowse , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , 11 October 2023;

— Review of My Father's Shadow : A Memoir Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo , 2023 single work autobiography

'How best to capture real lives on the page?'

1 Remembering Susan Ryan Sara Dowse , 2020 single work obituary (for Susan Ryan )
— Appears in: Inside Story , October 2020;

'A former colleague recalls working with the reformist Labor minister'

1 English Vices Sara Dowse , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , October 2020;

— Review of Oh Happy Day Carmen Callil , 2020 single work autobiography
'Pioneering Australian publisher Carmen Callil — who died this weeek — traces her family’s trajectory'
1 Strangers in a Strange Land Sara Dowse , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , July 2020;

— Review of How to Be Australian Ashley Kalagian Blunt , 2020 single work autobiography
'Migration is never an easy experience, even if there are laughs along the way'
1 An Except From West Block Sara Dowse , 2020 extract novel (West Block : The Hidden World of Canberra's Mandarins)
— Appears in: Verity La , November 2020;
1 Rewriting the Script Sara Dowse , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , July 2019;

— Review of See What You Made Me Do Jess Hill , 2019 multi chapter work criticism
'Meticulously fairminded, Jess Hill uncovers a surprisingly consistent pattern to domestic abuse'
1 A Kind of Heroism Sara Dowse , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , February 2019;

— Review of Beyond Words : A Year with Kenneth Cook Jacqueline Kent , 2019 single work autobiography
'Stoked by cigarettes and whiskey, Kenneth Cook kept writing until the end'
1 Dispatches from the Home Front Sara Dowse , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , July 2017;

— Review of Strangers at Home : Place, Belonging, and Australian Life Writing Jack Bowers , 2016 multi chapter work criticism
'Jack Bowers reveals a remarkable wealth of Australian autobiography'
1 2 y separately published work icon As the Lonely Fly Sara Dowse , North Sydney : For Pity Sake Publishing , 2017 11348390 2017 single work novel historical fiction

'It was Clara. My name is Chava now.'

'Forgive me, Chava, ' said Gesia. 'But you know, I would never have taken you for a Zionist. Such a staunch one, in any case, to want to give up your name.'

'Three Russian-Jewish women are flung from their homes in the Ukraine and Bessarabia - the 'wild west' of the tsarist empire - by pogrom and revolution.

'In 1922 Clara goes to Palestine where she joins the legendary G'dud Ha'Avodah or Labour Battalion, the roving collective initially formed to build roads connecting the growing Jewish settlements. But she soon becomes uneasy about Jewish settlers taking work from Arabs and usurping their land. As the schism widens between socialist and more conservative Zionists, Chava's abiding sense of justice has potentially lethal consequences.

'Clara's younger sister Manya migrates to the relative safety of Omaha in the American Midwest, reinventing herself as Marion for better assimilation. Despite escaping mounting antisemitism in Europe Marion feels isolated on the prairie, eventually finding her way to New York, an acting career and a life of ease compared to the hardships of Palestine.

'Zippora, Chava and Marion's niece, is a committed Zionist who hides from the Soviet secret police in a Ukranian forest and, in frequent letters, begs her dear Doda Clara to help her get to Palestine. Once there, Zipporah is dismayed by Chava's disillusionment with Zionism, her ardent belief in a future Jewish state remaining undiminished.

'Thus Clara, Manya and Zipporah form three sides of a triangle - the doomed revolutionary, the American immigrant, and the committed Israeli - three very different yet equally influential perspectives on the creation of present-day Israel.

'Sara Dowse's As the Lonely Fly is an epic story of persecution, migration and dispersal during tumultuous events in the 20th Century, which shines a light on the intertwined fates of Jews and Palestinians - a scenario with deep contemporary resonance. An urgent and moving novel from one of this country's most gifted storytellers.' (Publication summary)

1 The Matriarch Sara Dowse , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , August 2016;

— Review of The Worst Woman in Sydney : The Life and Crimes of Kate Leigh Leigh Straw , 2016 single work biography

'Was Kate Leigh a bad woman, the worst in Sydney?'

1 Scientist Loved the Natural World Sara Dowse , 2015 single work obituary (for Tony Taylor )
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 10-11 October 2015; (p. 43)
1 Our Story Sara Dowse , 2015 single work obituary (for Amirah Inglis )
— Appears in: Inside Story , May 2015;

'Sara Dowse remembers the writer Amirah Inglis, who died on Saturday'

1 History, Mystery, Romance : Complications in China A Quest for Identity Finds Its Meaning in China Sara Dowse , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 3-4 May 2014; (p. 35) The Age , 3 May 2014; (p. 33)

— Review of The Empress Lover Linda Jaivin , 2014 single work novel
1 The Real Julia Sara Dowse , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , October 2014;

— Review of My Story Julia Gillard , 2014 single work autobiography
'What happened to the woman who beguiled on election night 2007?'
1 The Femocrat Factor Sara Dowse , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , June 2013;

— Review of The Misogyny Factor Anne Summers , 2013 single work non-fiction

'Should the Australian women’s movement have relied so much on government? Sara Dowse responds to Anne Summers’s The Misogyny Factor'

1 One Touch of Venus Sara Dowse , 2012 extract autobiography (One Touch of Venus)
— Appears in: The Invisible Thread : One Hundred Years of Words 2012; (p. 89-95)
1 Engaging with the Zeitgeist Sara Dowse , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 8 September 2012; (p. 20-21)

— Review of The Engagement Chloe Hooper , 2012 single work novel
1 Faithful Winter in the Town of Failing Sara Dowse , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 1 September 2012; (p. 21)

— Review of Sufficient Grace Amy Espeseth , 2009 single work novel
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