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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Boy He Cry : An Island Odyssey
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'Two young Australians arrive unannounced on a remote Melanesian island and ask its residents if they can live with them for a year. Granted this request, cut off from the outside world, living without electricity, telephones, running water, two-way radios or even access to an ocean-going boat, Roger Averill and his anthropologist partner adapt to life in a subsistence culture and find themselves overwhelmed by the generosity of their hosts. Treacherous sea voyages, cyclones, a drug-induced psychotic episode and encounters with maverick American missionaries all add to the adventure. As the health of the couple steadily deteriorates from repeated bouts of malaria, their relationships with the islanders intensify to form deep and lasting bonds. In this way, amidst stories of love and detective magic, shape-changing witches, playful tree sprites, dwarf's hair and a dead merman, the most amazing transformation in Boy He Cry remains the way these people from vastly different cultures start out as total strangers but quickly become friends, even family.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Shelley and Grace and Lily
  • Epigraph: Palms tell the time of day: / the softest green is morning; / at noon, a touch of copper; / at twilight, lead. / But when the mauve light faded / and Tilley lamps were lit, / and smoke crept from the eaves / of the palm-leaf houses, / my fragrant and dying chair / said my youth was passing, / and the green blood turning brown / in my stagnant veins. - The Dying Chair, Randolph Stow

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Yarraville, Footscray - Maribyrnong area, Melbourne - West, Melbourne, Victoria,: Transit Lounge , 2009 .
      Extent: 310p.
      Reprinted: 2009
      Note/s:
      • Publication date: March 2009.
      ISBN: 9780980461671

Works about this Work

Tides of Conviction Jane Goodall , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 313 2009; (p. 62-63)

— Review of Boy He Cry : An Island Odyssey Roger Averill , 2009 single work autobiography
Untitled Michael Kitson , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , March vol. 88 no. 6 2009; (p. 37)

— Review of Boy He Cry : An Island Odyssey Roger Averill , 2009 single work autobiography
In Short : Nonfiction Bruce Elder , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4-5 April 2009; (p. 31)

— Review of Boy He Cry : An Island Odyssey Roger Averill , 2009 single work autobiography ; Australia through Women's Eyes Ann Standish , 2008 single work criticism
Off the Shelf : Memoir Dianne Dempsey , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 28 February 2009; (p. 26)

— Review of Boy He Cry : An Island Odyssey Roger Averill , 2009 single work autobiography
Off the Shelf : Memoir Dianne Dempsey , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 28 February 2009; (p. 26)

— Review of Boy He Cry : An Island Odyssey Roger Averill , 2009 single work autobiography
In Short : Nonfiction Bruce Elder , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4-5 April 2009; (p. 31)

— Review of Boy He Cry : An Island Odyssey Roger Averill , 2009 single work autobiography ; Australia through Women's Eyes Ann Standish , 2008 single work criticism
Untitled Michael Kitson , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , March vol. 88 no. 6 2009; (p. 37)

— Review of Boy He Cry : An Island Odyssey Roger Averill , 2009 single work autobiography
Tides of Conviction Jane Goodall , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 313 2009; (p. 62-63)

— Review of Boy He Cry : An Island Odyssey Roger Averill , 2009 single work autobiography
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