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Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 Play Abandoned
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'Every summer, the country families load the roof racks and motor south to the Bon Accord hotel. They find order here, beside the sea. Constancy in a changeable world.

'But this time ladders and workmen choke the foyer. There's foreign muck on the menu, posters proclaiming a Summer Festival of Writing. And child abductors are lurking on the sun blasted streets, in the tricky dunes. There's smoke in the hot inland winds. Everything's different this time. This time Marian Parr is not complete. She knows she should not have come.

'As love fractures, and old certainties crumble, Marian leans grieving against a balcony post, meddling with the cosmos.' (From the publisher's website.)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Camilla Webster.
  • Author's note: Play Abandoned grew out of, and partly incorporates, two of the author's short stories, 'Trusthouse' in Muder at Home (1993) and 'The Other Side' in Australian Book Review.
  • Book launched in Melbourne at the 2011 Melbourne Writers Festival.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • North Melbourne, Flemington - North Melbourne area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Arcadia , 2011 .
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      Extent: 260p.
      Edition info: 1st ed.
      ISBN: 9781921875335 (pbk.)
      Series: y separately published work icon Press On Arcadia (publisher), Melbourne : Arcadia , 2009-2015 Z1824488 2009 series - publisher novel 'Press On is published in partnership with Arcadia. In 2010, four Press On books were published by Press On Publishing in association with Arcadia, the general books' imprint of Australian Scholarly Publishing. Authors Michael Wilding, Peter Corris, Phillip Edmonds and Inez Baranay began the first batch of Press On. Commissioned by Michael Wilding, eight more books join the series with new authors Morris Lurie, Garry Disher, Ross Fitzgerald, Trevor Jordan and Victoria Thompson. Felix Calvino's previously published A Hatful of Cherries Arcadia, 2009 has also taken on the Press On logo. Arcadia's 2011 Press On additions were launched at the Melbourne Writers Festival this year.' Source: www.scholarly.info/ (Sighted 15/11/2011). Number in series: 10
    • Balmain, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,: Ligature , 2019 .
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      Extent: 154p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 24th March 2019.
      ISBN: 9781925883114

Works about this Work

Preaching to the Converted : Garry Disher's Play Abandoned Robert Goodman , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Verity La , August 2012;

— Review of Play Abandoned Garry Disher , 2011 single work novel
Detective Novelist Mostly Keeps Detective Elements out of Domestic Comedy Robert Byers , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 26 no. 2 2012; (p. 274)

— Review of Play Abandoned Garry Disher , 2011 single work novel
Satisfying Bunch of Five Peter Pierce , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 5 November 2011; (p. 24)

— Review of Fools’ Paradise : Life in an Altered State Ross Fitzgerald , Trevor L. Jordan , 2011 single work novel ; The Magic of It Michael Wilding , 2011 single work novel ; Play Abandoned Garry Disher , 2011 single work novel ; The Colonial Queen Peter Corris , 2011 single work novel ; Hergesheimer Hangs In Morris Lurie , 2011 single work novel
In Short : Fiction Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 October 2011; (p. 34)

— Review of Play Abandoned Garry Disher , 2011 single work novel ; Triptych : An Erotic Adventure Krissy Kneen , 2011 selected work short story ; The Briny Cafe Susan Duncan , 2011 single work novel
In Short : Fiction Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 October 2011; (p. 34)

— Review of Play Abandoned Garry Disher , 2011 single work novel ; Triptych : An Erotic Adventure Krissy Kneen , 2011 selected work short story ; The Briny Cafe Susan Duncan , 2011 single work novel
Satisfying Bunch of Five Peter Pierce , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 5 November 2011; (p. 24)

— Review of Fools’ Paradise : Life in an Altered State Ross Fitzgerald , Trevor L. Jordan , 2011 single work novel ; The Magic of It Michael Wilding , 2011 single work novel ; Play Abandoned Garry Disher , 2011 single work novel ; The Colonial Queen Peter Corris , 2011 single work novel ; Hergesheimer Hangs In Morris Lurie , 2011 single work novel
Detective Novelist Mostly Keeps Detective Elements out of Domestic Comedy Robert Byers , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 26 no. 2 2012; (p. 274)

— Review of Play Abandoned Garry Disher , 2011 single work novel
Preaching to the Converted : Garry Disher's Play Abandoned Robert Goodman , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Verity La , August 2012;

— Review of Play Abandoned Garry Disher , 2011 single work novel
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