Cacti single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 Cacti
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Notes

  • 'Cacti' was revised by the author for its inclusion in Encore (2011) and the subsequent re-publication of The Bookbinder's Brother and Other Collected Stories (2012).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Westerly vol. 33 no. 3 September 1988 Z616794 1988 periodical issue 1988 pg. 81-83
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Bookbinder's Brother and Other Collected Stories Rosanne Dingli , Mitcham : Jacobyte Books , 2003 Z1845228 2003 selected work short story

    'Rosanne Dingli's stories deal with art, music, and literature, and are intensely concerned with location and atmosphere. They combine diverse meanings of intimacy experienced by a fascinating assortment of characters, at different times, in different places.

    Uneasy familiarity between friends thrown together by a difficult love for one woman, or the bond of siblings, are forms of intimacy that can border on contempt. Artists, musicians and writers can have such similar intense feelings ... or such diverse emotions, about similar situations. Lovers' tenderness can endure because of deep understanding. Betrayal, confusion and joy live side-by-side with disappointment, bewilderment and elation, and always, there is that sense of involvement, of relationship.

    This is an excursion into how close, or how distant, two individuals can feel. Enjoy this special bijou collection of fifteen previously published and awarded stories' (publisher blurb).

    Mitcham : Jacobyte Books , 2003
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Over and Above and Other Stories Rosanne Dingli , Perth : Rosanne Dingli , 2011 Z1845265 2011 selected work short story

    'Nine atmospheric short stories, in each of which the location is as important as the characters that move through it' (publication blurb).

    Perth : Rosanne Dingli , 2011
    pg. 105-112
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Encore Rosanne Dingli , Perth : Rosanne Dingli , 2011 Z1845268 2011 selected work short story

    'Music has the ability to change moods, to soothe or excite. These short stories are gathered loosely around a musical theme. The romance, the passion, the inspiration of music, and how it affects people' (publisher blurb).

    Perth : Rosanne Dingli , 2011
    pg. 1-8
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Day of the Bird : Collected Stories Rosanne Dingli , Perth : Rosanne Dingli , 2012 6064769 2012 selected work short story

    'Award-winning literary fiction author Rosanne Dingli follows the success of The Astronomer’s Pig and Counting Churches – The Malta Stories with another volume. Read fourteen atmospheric stories crammed with exotic ingredients and locations, which engage and somehow ring with the familiar and the unexpected. Historical fiction, folkloric tales, and anecdotes linked strongly with their location are this author's favourite forays into storytelling. Each short story or novella has indelible links with the facts that form its base and background' (publisher's blurb).

    The collection comprises all the stories published in Vision or Delusion (2010) and Over and Above (2011) - both out of print.

    Perth : Rosanne Dingli , 2012
    pg. 55-60
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