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y separately published work icon Home Time selected work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1985... 1985 Home Time
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Fitzroy, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,:McPhee Gribble Penguin , 1985 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Place of Birth, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 1-25)
Caffe Veneto, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 27-40)
The Harem, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 41-52)
A Woman I Visit A Woman with Black Hair, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 53-60)
Market Day, Beverley Farmer , single work short story

In "Market Day" a blind woman discovers accidentally that she is now grey and old, but this woman transcends her tragic past and self-interest to serve the cause of her niece's love. This little brown Aunt who has patiently endured physical and emotional suffering is almost deified because of her capacity to love a world she cannot see. She accommodates the loss of her own youth, and by the end of the story her hair is no longer the focus of her despair but, appropriately, has the appearance of a bronze crown. This narrative is also interesting in that Farmer recreates the particular textures and sounds of Elpida's environment as the reader shares the blind woman's dependence upon aural or mnemonic experience.

(Source: 'Against the Grain: Beverley Farmer's Writing')

(p. 61-69)
Home Time As Time Goes By, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 71-80)
Note: With title: Home Time
White Friday, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 81-90)
A Man in the Laundrette, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 91-101)
Fire and Flood, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 103-123)
Marina Mother and Child, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 125-134)
A Girl on the Sand, Beverley Farmer , single work short story

Dimitri is a middle-aged Greek now living in an Australian coastal town. His friend, Jim, comes up distraught, and describes how he found a corpse on the beach: a teenage girl, pregnant and missing a hand.

From this incident, Dimitri recalls a girl he met in Greece when he was fourteen: Dimitroula, who had come to Thessaloniki to have an abortion. Dimitroula's hand has been undeveloped since birth, with only a few stubs like fingers. Dimitri helps her find a doctor and falls in love with her, but she never comes back once she leaves.

(p. 135-153)
Matrimonial Home, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 155-168)
Pomegranates Pomegranate Time, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 169-177)
Our Lady of the Beehives, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 179-204)
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