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2 46 y separately published work icon Mr Scobie's Riddle Elizabeth Jolley , New York (City) : Persea Books , 2012 Z183979 1983 single work novel

'Mr Scobie's arrival at the nursing home of St Christopher and St Jude - and descent into the clutches of Matron Hyacinth Price - is accidental. Adrift in his own memories but preserving a gentle politesse, Mr Scobie stands apart from the others.

'For long-term resident and eccentric, Miss Hailey, he represents a kindred spirit; for Matron Price - a lady of questionable practices - the latest victim.

'This bleakly comic investigation of old age, exile and displacement shows Elizabeth Jolley at her finest. It is written with wry humour, melancholy and great warmth.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Modern Classics ed.).
4 71 y separately published work icon Miss Peabody's Inheritance Elizabeth Jolley , New York (City) : Persea Books , 2012 Z796757 1983 single work novel (taught in 4 units)

'In this potent tale of love and loneliness, Elizabeth Jolley has woven two parallel stories into a dazzlingly original novel. Arabella Thorne is a brilliant, witty and accomplished woman. The exotic tale of this flamboyant eccentric and her European travels – with jealous secretary and shy schoolgirl protégée – is the inheritance that transforms the uneventful suburban life of Miss Peabody.' (Publication summary)
1 5 y separately published work icon The Vera Wright Trilogy Elizabeth Jolley , New York (City) : Persea Books , 2010 Z982430 2010 selected work novel
4 42 y separately published work icon Foxybaby Elizabeth Jolley , New York (City) : Persea Books , 2010 Z385173 1985 single work novel (taught in 2 units) 'Alma Porch, novelist and aspiring dramatist, is hired to teach a course in Trinity College's "Better Body Through the Arts" summer program for overweight adults. On the rundown campus in the remote Australian outback, Alma is surrounded by starving matrons, orgies of sex and gluttony, and an eccentric group of staff and students who are eager to open themselves to the transforming possibilities of her screenplay, "Foxybaby." As the students develop their roles and film this story of a father trying to rescue his runaway daughter and her baby from discos and drugs, the play becomes a kind of therapy and begins to unite and console the lonely hearts of this unlikely group in surprising ways.In this wise and frequently uproarious book, Elizabeth Jolley is at her provocative best.' (Publisher's blurb)
4 52 y separately published work icon The Sugar Mother Elizabeth Jolley , New York (City) : Persea Books , 2010 Z377530 1988 single work novel

'Edwin Page, a fussy middle-aged professor, no sooner bids farewell to his obstetrician wife, Cecilia, who accepted a fellowship abroad, when his new neighbors, Mrs. Botts and her sexy, twentyish daughter, Leila, arrive. Since they're locked out of their house, Edwin invites them in—and then can't get them to leave. He becomes obsessed with Leila and convinces himself that she is a perfect surrogate mother for the childless Cecilia.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Persea ed.).
1 29 y separately published work icon The Daylight Moon : Poems Les Murray , New York (City) : Persea Books , 1988 Z384668 1987 selected work poetry
2 41 y separately published work icon Palomino Elizabeth Jolley , New York (City) : Persea Books , 1987 Z184084 1980 single work novel
3 48 y separately published work icon Milk and Honey : A Novel Elizabeth Jolley , New York (City) : Persea Books , 1986 Z385380 1984 single work novel

'A self-absorbed young musician comes as a pupil-boarder to the house of an 'old European' family. Gradually his life is taken over and consumed, seemingly, by dark, mysterious forces within as much as outside himself. Milk and Honey is a strangely haunting novel. While much of what we have come to expect and admire in Elizabeth Jolley's work is powerfully present — vivid and diverse characters, pathos, humour and acute perceptions of people and their situations — it is in many ways quite unlike anything she has previously written. A work of gothic proportions, Milk and Honey is an astonishing tapestry of character and incident that surprises and yet never fails to convince.'

(Source: Booktopia)
1 13 y separately published work icon The Vernacular Republic : Poems 1961-1981 Les Murray , New York (City) : Persea Books , 1982 Z300706 1982 selected work poetry
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