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Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 Cabin Fever
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'Vera has cabin fever. Confined with her thoughts in the concrete tower of a New York hotel, she is haunted by her mother's reminders of what she should have been, and the desperate choices she faced as an unprotected single mother.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Modern Classics ed.).

Notes

  • Sound recordings, braille version and discussion notes available.
  • Book 2 of the My Father's Moon Trilogy.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Viking , 1990 .
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      Extent: 237p.
      Reprinted: 1992
      ISBN: 0670831557
    • London,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Sinclair-Stevenson ,       1991 .
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      Extent: 237p.
      ISBN: 1856190374
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Harper Perennial ,       1991 .
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      Extent: 237p.
      ISBN: 0060166223
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1991 .
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      Extent: 237p.
      ISBN: 0140145001
    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2008 .
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      Extent: 336p.p.
      ISBN: 9781742283760, 1742283764
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Vera Wright Trilogy Elizabeth Jolley , New York (City) : Persea Books , 2010 Z982430 2010 selected work novel New York (City) : Persea Books , 2010
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Related Works

Disorder and Early Sorrow... Elizabeth Jolley , 1989 extract novel (Cabin Fever)
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 21-22 January 1989; (p. 6) Central Mischief : Elizabeth Jolley on Writing, Her Past and Herself 1992; (p. 21-23)
More of Ramsden Elizabeth Jolley , 1990 single work short story
— Appears in: Scripsi , vol. 6 no. 1 1990; (p. 75-78)
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Works about this Work

Friendship in a Time of Loneliness Barbara Milech , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 24 no. 1 2009; (p. 97-110) The essay 'explores the ways in which Jolley's fictions are simultaneously motivated by a longing for consummate love - (hetero)sexual, intellectual, spiritual, all at once - and shaped by a gathering understanding of the impossibility of that desire as a way of being in the world' (98-99).
On My Bedside Table Veronica Brady , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 3 November 2007; (p. 42)
— Review of Dreams of Speaking Gail Jones , 2006 single work novel ; Cabin Fever Elizabeth Jolley , 1990 single work novel
A Scattered Catalogue of Consolation Elizabeth Jolley , 2006 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Learning to Dance : Elizabeth Jolley : Her Life and Work 2006; (p. 17-53)
Babies Eat Their Lace : Elizabeth Jolley and the Slaughter of Decorum Eden Liddelow , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: After Electra : Rage, Grief and Hope in Twentieth-Century Fiction 2002; (p. 118-136, notes 194-195)
Elizabeth Jolley Elizabeth Jolley , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: An Eloquent Sufficiency : 50 Writers Talk about Life and Literature Over Lunch 1998; (p. 22-27)
Summer Reading Rod Moran , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , December and vol. 6 no. 1 January vol. 5 no. 12 1991; (p. 10-11)
— Review of Wild Card : An Autobiography, 1923-1958 Dorothy Hewett , 1990 single work autobiography ; The Quest for Grace Manning Clark , 1990 single work autobiography ; Cabin Fever Elizabeth Jolley , 1990 single work novel ; The Bluebird Cafe Carmel Bird , 1990 single work novel ; Florid States Rod Usher , 1990 single work novel ; God in the Afternoon : Selected Poetry and Fiction of Griffith Watkins Griffith Wynne Watkins , 1990 selected work poetry short story ; Miss Gymkhana, R. G. Menzies and Me : Small Town Life in the Fifties Kathy Skelton , 1990 single work autobiography
Untitled Barbara Brandt , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , December 1991 and vol. 6 no. 12 , January vol. 7 no. 1 1992; (p. 20)
— Review of Cabin Fever Elizabeth Jolley , 1990 single work novel
On My Bedside Table Veronica Brady , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 3 November 2007; (p. 42)
— Review of Dreams of Speaking Gail Jones , 2006 single work novel ; Cabin Fever Elizabeth Jolley , 1990 single work novel
Extra to Real Life Drusilla Modjeska , 1998 single work criticism review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 200 1998; (p. 45-46)
— Review of My Father's Moon Elizabeth Jolley , 1989 single work novel ; The Georges' Wife Elizabeth Jolley , 1993 single work novel ; Cabin Fever Elizabeth Jolley , 1990 single work novel
[Review] Wintering Chris Floyd , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Span , May no. 33 1992; (p. 177-181)
— Review of Homecoming : Three Novellas John Clanchy , 1989 selected work short story ; Wintering Victor Kelleher , 1990 single work novel ; Cabin Fever Elizabeth Jolley , 1990 single work novel ; The Tax Inspector Peter Carey , 1991 single work novel
Babies Eat Their Lace : Elizabeth Jolley and the Slaughter of Decorum Eden Liddelow , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: After Electra : Rage, Grief and Hope in Twentieth-Century Fiction 2002; (p. 118-136, notes 194-195)
Motherhood Elizabeth Jolley , 1992 single work prose
— Appears in: Learning to Dance : Elizabeth Jolley : Her Life and Work 2006; (p. 149-156)
A Scattered Catalogue of Consolation Elizabeth Jolley , 2006 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Learning to Dance : Elizabeth Jolley : Her Life and Work 2006; (p. 17-53)
Friendship in a Time of Loneliness Barbara Milech , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 24 no. 1 2009; (p. 97-110) The essay 'explores the ways in which Jolley's fictions are simultaneously motivated by a longing for consummate love - (hetero)sexual, intellectual, spiritual, all at once - and shaped by a gathering understanding of the impossibility of that desire as a way of being in the world' (98-99).
Writing Fever Tim Lloyd (interviewer), 1990 single work biography interview
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 6 October 1990; (p. 14)
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