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Issue Details: First known date: 2000... 2000 The Receptionist
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    y separately published work icon In the Gutter... Looking at the Stars : A Literary Adventure through Kings Cross Mandy Sayer (editor), Louis Nowra (editor), Milsons Point : Random House , 2000 Z11602 2000 anthology short story poetry extract biography The work is divided into sections, predominantly by decade. There is one section for the nineteenth century and then one section for each decade from the 1920s to the 1990s. Each section has a brief introduction to the relevant era written by the editors. Milsons Point : Random House , 2000 pg. 296-304
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  • Kings Cross, Kings Cross area, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,
  • 1970s
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