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Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 Wild Life
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Dale combines true crime (the 1942 death of Dale's grandfather, Harvey Malcolm) with an imagined depiction of his grandfather's life and times.

Notes

  • Dedication: For Alice and Alys.
  • Epigraph: They'll not find him in the hills above the slow fern gully; he's gone to earth like a sunken crek in an unknown valley. - Vivian Smith.
  • Epigraph: You may forget, but Let me tell you this: Someone in some future time Will think of us. - Sappho

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2004 .
      Extent: 253p.
      Description: illus., map.
      Note/s:
      • Cover title: Wild Life : A Story of Family, Infidelity and a Fatal Shooting.
      ISBN: 1741141710
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Works about this Work

Nonfiction Derek Verrall , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Island , Autumn no. 100 2005; (p. 136-139)
— Review of Island and Otherland : Christopher Koch and His Books Noel Henricksen , 2003 single work criticism ; Wild Life John Dale , 2004 single work novel
Where's the Tiger Philip Clark , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January no. 267 2004-2005; (p. 66)
— Review of Wild Life John Dale , 2004 single work novel
Of Beasts, Perhaps of Many Kinds Chris Brice , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 3 July 2004; (p. 11)
— Review of Wild Life John Dale , 2004 single work novel
Fact of Fiction, Tense Tasmanian Tale is a Ripping Yarn Christopher Bantick , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 29 May 2004; (p. 5)
— Review of Wild Life John Dale , 2004 single work novel
Diverse Styles in a Steady Stream of Talent Jeff Popple , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 29 May 2004; (p. 4a)
— Review of Malicious Intent Kathryn Fox , 2004 single work novel ; Queen of the Flowers Kerry Greenwood , 2004 single work novel ; Wild Life John Dale , 2004 single work novel
Seeking the Inner Isolation Christopher Bantick , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 May 2004; (p. 10)
— Review of Wild Life John Dale , 2004 single work novel
Untitled Tim Coronel , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , April vol. 83 no. 9 2004; (p. 46)
— Review of Wild Life John Dale , 2004 single work novel
Diverse Styles in a Steady Stream of Talent Jeff Popple , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 29 May 2004; (p. 4a)
— Review of Malicious Intent Kathryn Fox , 2004 single work novel ; Queen of the Flowers Kerry Greenwood , 2004 single work novel ; Wild Life John Dale , 2004 single work novel
Fact of Fiction, Tense Tasmanian Tale is a Ripping Yarn Christopher Bantick , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 29 May 2004; (p. 5)
— Review of Wild Life John Dale , 2004 single work novel
Of Beasts, Perhaps of Many Kinds Chris Brice , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 3 July 2004; (p. 11)
— Review of Wild Life John Dale , 2004 single work novel
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Last amended 4 May 2006 11:52:11
Subjects:
Settings:
  • Tasmania,
  • 1930s
  • 1940s
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