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Issue Details: First known date: 1980... 1980 The Impersonators
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When Sylvia Foley returns to Australia after twenty years, she finds her father, Jack Cornock, ill. This and his obstinate silence provoke speculation about his will among the families of his two marriages, Sylvia becomes enmeshed in the webs of their alliances and disaffections. The Impersonators portrays the breakdown of family relationships and the endurance of love in a materialistic age. (Source: Sydney University Press)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • South Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Macmillan , 1980 .
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      Extent: 252p.
      ISBN: 0333299256
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1982 .
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      Extent: 252p.
      Description: 1 geneal. table.
      ISBN: 0140063331
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      Americas,      :       Viking ,       1985 .
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      Alternative title: The Only Daughter
      Extent: 252p.
      ISBN: 0670804312
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Sydney University Press , 2003 .
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      Extent: 264p.
      ISBN: 0975086057
      Series: y separately published work icon Classic Australian Works CAW Sydney University Press (publisher), Sydney : Sydney University Press , Z1087478 2003- series - publisher

      'This collection features books that should always be available for readers and students as part of our national cultural heritage. These works retain their influence and impact, the richness and quality of their writing, and their importance as a record and reflection of Australian life and perspectives, but have disappeared from traditional publication.'

      (Source: Classic Australian Works website, http://www.sup.usyd.edu.au/projects_cal_about.html )
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1990 .
      Extent: 330p.
      Edition info: New ed.
      ISBN: 0140123687 (pbk.)
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Works about this Work

Unsettling Archive : Suburbs in Australian Fiction Brigid Rooney , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 2023;
Best Book You've Never Read : The Impersonators by Jessica Anderson Charlotte Wood , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21-22 May 2005; (p. 22)
— Review of The Impersonators Jessica Anderson , 1980 single work novel
"Only the houses on the point ..." : Deciphering Houses as Carriers of Social Meaning in the Novels of Jessica Anderson Catherine Staveley , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: A Spanish Sampler of Australian Studies 1996; (p. 53-60)
y separately published work icon Fabricating the Self : The Fictions of Jessica Anderson Elaine Barry , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1996 Z509037 1996 single work criticism
Women, Law and Literature : Representations of Women and the Law in American and Australian Fiction Elaine Barry , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Happy Couple : Law and Literature 1994; (p. 99-113)
Best Book You've Never Read : The Impersonators by Jessica Anderson Charlotte Wood , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21-22 May 2005; (p. 22)
— Review of The Impersonators Jessica Anderson , 1980 single work novel
A Year of Varietals Laurie Clancy , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , July no. 84 1981; (p. 26-30)
— Review of Monkeys in the Dark Blanche d'Alpuget , 1980 single work novel ; The Frangipani Gardens Barbara Hanrahan , 1980 single work novel ; Other People's Children Helen Garner , 1980 single work novella ; Honour Helen Garner , 1980 single work novella ; Alone : A Novel Beverley Farmer , 1980 single work novel ; The Impersonators Jessica Anderson , 1980 single work novel ; War Crimes : Short Stories Peter Carey , 1979 selected work short story ; Faces You Can't Find Again : Short Stories Michele Nayman , 1980 selected work short story ; Honour, and, Other People's Children : Two Stories Helen Garner , 1980 selected work novella ; Cherry Bloom Bruce Grant , 1980 single work novel
Australians Recollect: Gallipoli, and Later Robin Lucas , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12 May 1990; (p. 78)
— Review of A Kingdom by the Sea Nancy Phelan , 1969 single work autobiography ; The Impersonators Jessica Anderson , 1980 single work novel ; Vreemdeling in de Spiegel : Autobiografie van een Nederlandse Emigrante Lolo Houbein , 1988 single work autobiography
Crumbling Facades Pip James , 1980 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8 November 1980; (p. 20)
— Review of The Impersonators Jessica Anderson , 1980 single work novel
The Bleak Spirit Rosemary Creswell , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 28 1981; (p. 14)
— Review of The Impersonators Jessica Anderson , 1980 single work novel
Women, Law and Literature : Representations of Women and the Law in American and Australian Fiction Elaine Barry , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Happy Couple : Law and Literature 1994; (p. 99-113)
y separately published work icon Your Place or Mine : Marginalisation and Place in Three Novels by Jessica Anderson : A Dissertation Susan Sophia Pritchard , Brisbane : 1989 Z1589582 1989 single work thesis
Jessica Anderson Candida Baker (interviewer), 1987 single work biography interview
— Appears in: Yacker 2 : Australian Writers Talk About Their Work 1987; (p. 14-27)
Mapping the Local in the Unreal City Liz Ferrier , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Island Magazine , Summer no. 41 1989; (p. 65-69)
Buffoon Odysseys: Australian Expatriate Fiction by Women Diana Brydon , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Aspects of Australian Fiction : Essays Presented to John Colmer, Professor Emeritus of English, The University of Adelaide 1990; (p. 73-85)
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  • 1970s
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