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Issue Details: First known date: 1985... 1985 Ringarra : A Gothic Novel
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'This thoroughly satisfying, explicit contemporary Gothic concerns Katsie McLeod whose parents died on their Wyoming ranch when she was a child. Raised in Philadelphia by her independent Quaker aunt, Katsie is getting her MBA at Wharton where she meets Bob Waterson, a business whiz from Australia. On a visit to his home, Bob takes Katsie to the grand, isolated estate of Ringarra to meet the remarkable head of the company he works for. Katsie is obsessed by ruthless, magnetic Michael Taverner, feeling controlled by him in a way utterly alien to her self-image as a thoroughly liberated woman. The twist in this modern Gothic, besides its trappings and its freely acknowledged sexual impetus, is Katsie's awareness of and struggle with the side of her that would choose obsession. She and Bob are further endangered when they uncover the complex fraud Taverner is engaged in, and Katsie must reach far back in her memory for the strength to pull free from his evil hold.'

Source: Publishers Weekly https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-06-015516-2 

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Century Hutchinson ,
      1985 .
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      Extent: 220p.
      ISBN: 0712610618
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
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      Harper and Row ,
      1985 .
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      Alternative title: Ringarra
      Extent: 220p.
      Edition info: 1st American ed.
      ISBN: 0060155167
    • London,
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      England,
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      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Pavanne ,
      1985 .
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      Extent: 220p.
      Note/s:
      • Dedication: For Lucy
      • Epigraph: The author quotes extensively from: Charlotte Bronte to M. Heger, 18 November 1845; and Jane Eyre, ch.35, 1847.
      • A Pavanne Original
      ISBN: 033028987X

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  • Also sound recording.

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— Appears in: Times on Sunday , 20 December 1987; (p. 25)
Porn, Power and the Upbringing of Young Malcolm Richard Guilliatt (interviewer), 1987 single work interview
— Appears in: Times on Sunday , 20 December 1987; (p. 25)
The Literary Mother Who Shaped Turnbull’s Thinking Glenda Korporaal , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 19-20 December 2015; (p. 20)
'Academic and author Coral Lansbury had a complex, often distant, relationship with her son.'
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