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Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 Going Inland
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Tom and Zoe Drewe, like thousands of others, are "going around Australia". Their journey, begun in certainty and on their terms, takes on its own momentum and compulsions, until they are driven as much as driving, and increasingly acted upon by the power and histories of the land whose surface they cross. Compelling, moving, disturbing, this important and timely novel confronts the dark side of the Australian psyche, exploring what it means to be an Australian, and the nature of belonging.

Notes

  • Dedication: For Stephen, Ann and Mark.
  • Epigraph: Land of the inmost heart, searching for / which Men roam the earth ... James McAuley, 'Captain Quiros'.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • South Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 1998 .
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      Extent: 216p.
      Description: port.
      ISBN: 1863682066
    • Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 2001 .
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      Extent: 216p.
      Description: illus: port.
      ISBN: 1863683747

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Works about this Work

Reconfiguring Australia's Literary Canon : Antipodean Cultural Tectonics Salhia Ben-Messahel , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Commonwealth , Autumn vol. 34 no. 1 2011; (p. 77-91)
'This paper shows how an Australian community imagined by the European continent has evolved to become more inclusive of otherness, be it in the form of non-Anglo-Australian cultures, Australian regional cultures, or a significant Indigenous culture intimately linked to the land. In this process, which is comparable to tectonic shifts, some Australian authors have attempted, within a 21st-century global village, to map intercultural spaces that reveal a pervasive sense of emptiness and the uncanny.' (Author's abstract)
'The Myth of Settlement' : Grey Nomads, Papunya Tula and Frontier Violence in Pat Jacobs' Going Inland Frances Devlin-Glass , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Frontier Skirmishes : Literary and Cultural Debates in Australia after 1992 2010; (p. 141-152)
Introduction : The Sacred in Australian Literary Culture Bill Ashcroft , Frances Devlin-Glass , Lyn McCredden , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Intimate Horizons : The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature 2009; (p. 1-31)
Jacobs' Novel Back on the Road Again Russell Wenholz , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 11 September 2005; (p. 14)

— Review of Going Inland Pat Jacobs , 1998 single work novel
Campervan Trip to the Margins Frances Devlin-Glass , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Tain , March no. 2 2000; (p. 15)

— Review of Going Inland Pat Jacobs , 1998 single work novel
Jacobs' Novel Back on the Road Again Russell Wenholz , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 11 September 2005; (p. 14)

— Review of Going Inland Pat Jacobs , 1998 single work novel
Campervan Trip to the Margins Frances Devlin-Glass , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Tain , March no. 2 2000; (p. 15)

— Review of Going Inland Pat Jacobs , 1998 single work novel
Distinctive Taste of Creole Culture Veronica Sen , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times Sunday Times , 5 April 1998; (p. 22)

— Review of Going Inland Pat Jacobs , 1998 single work novel
Old Broome's Human Sweep Michael Sharkey , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 27 April 1998; (p. 14)

— Review of Going Inland Pat Jacobs , 1998 single work novel ; The Drowning Dream Peter Burke , 1998 single work novel
Untitled Kristin Hammett , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 203 1998; (p. 46)

— Review of Going Inland Pat Jacobs , 1998 single work novel
Writer of the Desert up for Richest Award David Reardon , 1999 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 30 November 1999;
Introduction : The Sacred in Australian Literary Culture Bill Ashcroft , Frances Devlin-Glass , Lyn McCredden , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Intimate Horizons : The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature 2009; (p. 1-31)
'The Myth of Settlement' : Grey Nomads, Papunya Tula and Frontier Violence in Pat Jacobs' Going Inland Frances Devlin-Glass , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Frontier Skirmishes : Literary and Cultural Debates in Australia after 1992 2010; (p. 141-152)
Reconfiguring Australia's Literary Canon : Antipodean Cultural Tectonics Salhia Ben-Messahel , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Commonwealth , Autumn vol. 34 no. 1 2011; (p. 77-91)
'This paper shows how an Australian community imagined by the European continent has evolved to become more inclusive of otherness, be it in the form of non-Anglo-Australian cultures, Australian regional cultures, or a significant Indigenous culture intimately linked to the land. In this process, which is comparable to tectonic shifts, some Australian authors have attempted, within a 21st-century global village, to map intercultural spaces that reveal a pervasive sense of emptiness and the uncanny.' (Author's abstract)
Unknown Up for Rich Literary Prize Angela Bennie , 1999 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25 November 1999; (p. 2)
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