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1 29 y separately published work icon A Boat Load of Home Folk Thea Astley , San Francisco : Tri-Ocean Books , 1969 Z269600 1968 single work novel

'When the tourist ship Malekula arrives at a tropic island in the the Pacific the crushing heat and the looming hurricane intensify the hostilities and frustrations of the egocentric people on board. And when the hurricane bursts on the island the havoc it brings is less perhaps than the personal storms of man and wife, of spinster friends, of man and mistress, of erring priest.

'Gerald Seabrook's pointless womanising achieves a finality of irritation for his suffering wife; elderly Miss Paradise drives her life-long friend, Miss Trumper, to make a fatal pilgrimage; the agent Stevenson sees the failure of his dream of love with his mistress; and the priest, Father Lake, explodes his own petty vices and his spiritual impotence. Their moments of truth are brilliantly illuminated as the story moves to its climax in the hurricane and its aftermath.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (House of Books ed.)

1 1 y separately published work icon A Bird in the Hand Lesley Rowlands , San Francisco : Tri-Ocean Books , 1965 Z347462 1965 single work novel humour

A 'satire of modern Australian life, with settings ranging from Sydney to the Gold Coast of Queensland'. The story focuses on the comic 'efforts of the protagonist, Clem Bird, to escape the bonds of respectability, a job, matrimony and the social ambitions of his North Shore mother'.

(Sources: Murphy Women Writers and Australia, 1988; The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, 1994.)

1 21 y separately published work icon The Cave and the Spring : Essays on Poetry A. D. Hope , San Francisco : Tri-Ocean Books , 1965 Z249356 1961 selected work criticism
2 y separately published work icon Gulf Barry Crump , San Francisco : Tri-Ocean Books , 1964 Z934639 1964 single work novel
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