y separately published work icon Bill's Break single work   novel  
Issue Details: First known date: 1983... 1983 Bill's Break
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'Rational vision does not exist in the mind of Bill Wyatt. Not impressed by the expectations of his academic father and snobbish mother, he went his own way to become...an artist. He and his city-born wife moved to a 'utopian' farmlet at Ithaca...an experience of isolated frustration and hopelessness. While the well he built failed to draw water, his tomato crop died in the heat, his pet dog killed the geese, Bill began an affair with the local art teacher after an exhibition of his paintings at the Municipal Library.Then... (Backcover)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Prahran, South Yarra - Glen Iris area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Champion Books , 1983 .
      Extent: 247p.
      ISBN: 0908483023

Works about this Work

Untitled Jamie Grant , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 242)

— Review of Bill's Break 'Alistair Skelton' , 1983 single work novel
Staying in the Reserves Gerard Windsor , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , April no. 98 1985; (p. 68-69)

— Review of Perfect Love : A Novel Laurie Clancy , 1983 single work novel ; Bill's Break 'Alistair Skelton' , 1983 single work novel ; Uphill Runner James McQueen , 1984 selected work short story ; The Bellarmine Jug : A Novel Nicholas Hasluck , 1984 single work novel
Staying in the Reserves Gerard Windsor , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , April no. 98 1985; (p. 68-69)

— Review of Perfect Love : A Novel Laurie Clancy , 1983 single work novel ; Bill's Break 'Alistair Skelton' , 1983 single work novel ; Uphill Runner James McQueen , 1984 selected work short story ; The Bellarmine Jug : A Novel Nicholas Hasluck , 1984 single work novel
Untitled Jamie Grant , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 242)

— Review of Bill's Break 'Alistair Skelton' , 1983 single work novel
Last amended 17 Aug 2007 14:40:54
Settings:
  • Ithaca, Brisbane, Queensland,
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X