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Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 The Alphabet of Light and Dark
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'A tiny coin found inside a Cloudy Bay oyster, a postcard of a white-haired child leaning against a beached dinghy and a coconut peeled and carved once upon a time on the Batavian coast. These trinkets, found in a sea chest, and the fragmented memories of her grandfather's tall tales are all Essie Lewis has left of her family history.

'After her grandfather's death, Essie returns to Bruny Island, Tasmania and to the lighthouse where her great-great-grandfather kept watch for nearly 40 years. Beneath the lighthouse, she begins to write the stories of her ancestors. But the island is also home to Pete Shelverton, a sculptor who hunts feral cats to make his own peace with the past. And as Essie writes, she finds that Pete is a part of the history she can never escape.' (Synopsis)

Notes

  • Dedication: For John and the seagull

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 2002
    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2003 .
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      Extent: 338p.
      ISBN: 174114065X

Works about this Work

What I’m Reading Young Dawkins , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2014;
The Invisible Gift Catherine Keenan , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Australian Author , December vol. 42 no. 3 2010; (p. 12-15)
'Mentoring involves teaching but requires something more strange and intimate than just passing on knowledge. Catherine Keenan talks to writers about the people who lifted them up when they were young'. (p12)
Islands C. A. Cranston , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Littoral Zone : Australian Contexts and Their Writers 2007; (p. 219-260)
This chapter investigates the impact of literary tropes on island topography. The survey approach of island literature is abandoned in favour of ecocritical praxis, examining instead the literature of selected temperate islands (with populations varying from 2 to 20,000). Cattle farming, ideological disjunction, and mortality are explored in two settler autobiographies set in 'paradise' (Three Hummock Island); 'descent with modification' is traced in the text and the farming practices (sealing, Soldier Settlement pastoral, and salvage) in a work of fiction based in 'Eden' (King Island); and in the final work (indigenous autobiography and myth set on North Stradbroke Island), the politics of the 'land ethic' and land rights confront a sea country pastoral. (from The Littoral Zone)
Loneliness and Solitude : 'The Alphabet of Light and Dark' Anastasia Anderson , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Dotlit : The Online Journal of Creative Writing , January vol. 5 no. 1 2004;

— Review of The Alphabet of Light and Dark Danielle Wood , 2002 single work novel
Untitled Rosemary Cuthbert , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 18 no. 1 2004; (p. 49)

— Review of The Alphabet of Light and Dark Danielle Wood , 2002 single work novel
Resourceful Heroine Entwines History Michael Sharkey , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 July 2003; (p. 6-7)

— Review of The Alphabet of Light and Dark Danielle Wood , 2002 single work novel
A Social Pulse Christina Hill , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 253 2003; (p. 47-48)

— Review of A Secret Burial Penelope Sell , 2003 single work novel ; The Alphabet of Light and Dark Danielle Wood , 2002 single work novel
A Luminous Debut in the Shadow of the Lighthouse Christopher Bantick , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 10 August 2003; (p. 10)

— Review of The Alphabet of Light and Dark Danielle Wood , 2002 single work novel
Go with the Metaphoric Flow Christopher Cyrill , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20-21 September 2003; (p. 16)

— Review of The Alphabet of Light and Dark Danielle Wood , 2002 single work novel
Untitled Anne Susskind , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 30 September vol. 121 no. 6392 2003; (p. 84)

— Review of The Alphabet of Light and Dark Danielle Wood , 2002 single work novel
Finding Her Place Christopher Bantick , 2003 single work column review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 18 October 2003; (p. 15)
Islands C. A. Cranston , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Littoral Zone : Australian Contexts and Their Writers 2007; (p. 219-260)
This chapter investigates the impact of literary tropes on island topography. The survey approach of island literature is abandoned in favour of ecocritical praxis, examining instead the literature of selected temperate islands (with populations varying from 2 to 20,000). Cattle farming, ideological disjunction, and mortality are explored in two settler autobiographies set in 'paradise' (Three Hummock Island); 'descent with modification' is traced in the text and the farming practices (sealing, Soldier Settlement pastoral, and salvage) in a work of fiction based in 'Eden' (King Island); and in the final work (indigenous autobiography and myth set on North Stradbroke Island), the politics of the 'land ethic' and land rights confront a sea country pastoral. (from The Littoral Zone)
The Invisible Gift Catherine Keenan , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Australian Author , December vol. 42 no. 3 2010; (p. 12-15)
'Mentoring involves teaching but requires something more strange and intimate than just passing on knowledge. Catherine Keenan talks to writers about the people who lifted them up when they were young'. (p12)
Writer Delivers on Fiance's Mission James Hall , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 18 September 2002; (p. 3)
Story of Essie Wins the Vogel Jason Steger , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 18 September 2002; (p. 3)
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