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The Woodpecker Toy Fact and Other Stories
Fitzroy
Ringwood
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McPhee Gribble
Penguin
,
1987
Z364855
1987
selected work
short story
To read these stories is to look into a kaleidoscope - or a peepshow where, against bright backdrops, people and their passions shift and slide with a mysterious dark daring. (Souce: back cover, 1987 edition)
Fitzroy
Ringwood
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McPhee Gribble
Penguin
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1987
pg.
95-143
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Woodpecker Point and Other Stories
New York (City)
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A New Directions Book
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1988
Z284128
1988
selected work
short story
This collection of short stories about everyday life hint at the ominous as they skate a fine line between the mundane and the fantastic and familiar images become startling icons. (Source: Copac)
New York (City)
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A New Directions Book
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1988
pg.
85-121
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The Essential Bird
London
Sydney
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Fourth Estate
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2005
Z1190499
2005
selected work
short story
essay
biography
prose
Enter the world of a murdered socialite, be consumed by rural madness, be ignited by the longings of an obsessive optometrist, engrossed by unorthodox book-binding, and moved by a heartbreaking meditation on the Oklahoma bombings. With its bewitching language, full of subtle harmonies and rhythms, The Essential Bird takes the reader on a voyage that delights, amazes and fascinates. Carmel Bird weaves fact, fantasy and history into a shimmering fabric of fiction that creates a world of hyper-reality both tender and profound. (Source: back cover)
London Sydney : Fourth Estate , 2005 pg. 37-82
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Settings:
- Tasmania,
- Country towns,
- 1960s
- 1980s
