The Common Rat sequence   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 The Common Rat
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Notes

  • A story in seven parts.

Includes

Red Letters Carmel Bird , 1992 single work short story
— Appears in: The Phoenix Review , Winter no. 7-8 1992; (p. 63-65) The Common Rat 1993; (p. 25-27) The Essential Bird 2005; (p. 340-342)
The Common Rat Carmel Bird , 1993 single work short story
— Appears in: The Common Rat 1993; (p. 11-16) The Essential Bird 2005; (p. 327-332)
The Cricketers' Arms Carmel Bird , 1991 single work short story
— Appears in: Australian Short Stories , no. 34 1991; (p. 98-100) The Common Rat 1993; (p. 17-19) The Essential Bird 2005; (p. 333-336)
Flick Carmel Bird , 1993 single work short story
— Appears in: The Common Rat 1993; (p. 21-24) The Essential Bird 2005; (p. 337-339)
Henry Lawson's Chromosome Carmel Bird , 1993 single work short story
— Appears in: The Common Rat 1993; (p. 37-43) The Essential Bird 2005; (p. 350-356)
Soldier of the Round Valleys Carmel Bird , 1993 single work short story
— Appears in: The Common Rat 1993; (p. 45-54) The Essential Bird 2005; (p. 355-366)
P. D. Hepworth, Architect Carmel Bird , 1992 single work short story
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 51 no. 1 1992; (p. 89-93) The Common Rat 1993; (p. 29-35) The Essential Bird 2005; (p. 343-349)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Common Rat Carmel Bird , Ringwood : McPhee Gribble , 1993 Z166109 1993 selected work short story prose autobiography essay These twenty-nine stories and essays bring into strange focus the beauty, violence and irony of everyday day life. Carmel Bird's language is elegant, deadpan, and her dark fables of the last decade of the twentieth century delight and startle. (Source: back cover) Ringwood : McPhee Gribble , 1993 pg. 9-54
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Essential Bird Carmel Bird , London Sydney : Fourth Estate , 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. 325-366
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