Late Summer single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1981... 1981 Late Summer
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

Maudie, a middle-aged woman with an intellectual disability, lives with her mother. She seeks refuge in fruit trees, sometimes scuffling with children who come to steal grapes and figs.

Maudie is not well accepted by the community. Her mother is impatient with her; when they go grocery shopping, a man denies them a lift and the shopkeeper dislikes her.

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia

    Type of disability

    Unspecified intellectual disability.

    Type of character Primary.
    Point of view Third person/

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Double Exposure and Other Stories Julie Lewis , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1981 Z326362 1981 selected work short story Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1981 pg. 28-34
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Impressions : West Coast Fiction 1829-1988 Peter Cowan (editor), Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1989 Z178100 1989 anthology short story extract humour Short stories and extracts from novels by Western Australian writers (visitors and residents) representing a wide range of changing responses to place over time. Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1989 pg. 305-310
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