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2012 Yellow Teapot Books edition. Source: Barnes and Noble
Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 The Bookbinder's Brother and Other Collected Stories
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'Rosanne Dingli's stories deal with art, music, and literature, and are intensely concerned with location and atmosphere. They combine diverse meanings of intimacy experienced by a fascinating assortment of characters, at different times, in different places.

Uneasy familiarity between friends thrown together by a difficult love for one woman, or the bond of siblings, are forms of intimacy that can border on contempt. Artists, musicians and writers can have such similar intense feelings ... or such diverse emotions, about similar situations. Lovers' tenderness can endure because of deep understanding. Betrayal, confusion and joy live side-by-side with disappointment, bewilderment and elation, and always, there is that sense of involvement, of relationship.

This is an excursion into how close, or how distant, two individuals can feel. Enjoy this special bijou collection of fifteen previously published and awarded stories' (publisher blurb).

Notes

  • The Bookbinder's Brother was originally published by Jacobyte Books (Adelaide) in 2003. After the company folded and the book went out of print, Rosanne Dingli revised the stories and republished seven in the 2011 online publication A Great Intimacy and Other Stories. Seven other stories from the 2003 collection, along with 'Playing from Memory' appear in the 2011 collection Encore ('Playing from Memory appears in both publications). A Great Intimacy and Other Stories and Encore were both published as ebooks via the CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.

    In 2012 Dingli republished the revised stories under the original title The Bookbinder's Brother through her own imprint, Yellow Teapot Books. This revised collection has been published as both ebooks and as paperbacks. The digital formats are avialable via Kindle (Amazon) and the CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.

  • At least three different cover designs have been used for the 2012 revised edition (all with the same ISBN).

Contents

* Contents derived from the Mitcham, Mitcham area, Adelaide - South / South East, Adelaide, South Australia,:Jacobyte Books , 2003 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Bookbinder's Brother, Rosanne Dingli , single work short story
After Agnes, Rosanne Dingli , single work short story
A Cello, Rosanne Dingli , single work short story
Il Funerale di un Vescovo, Rosanne Dingli , single work short story
A Great Intimacy, Rosanne Dingli , single work short story
Twenty Minutes, Two Years, Rosanne Musu , single work short story
Playing from Memory, Rosanne Dingli , single work short story
Cacti, Rosanne Musu , single work short story
Allegro Ma Non Troppo, Rosanne Dingli , single work short story
Encore, Rosanne Dingli , single work short story
Walking into the Sea, Rosanne Dingli , single work short story
Wetting the Stone, Rosanne Dingli , single work short story
Dancing Words, Rosanne Dingli , single work short story
The House with its Feet in the Sea, Rosanne Dingli , single work short story
The Land of Smiles, Rosanne Dingli , single work short story

A fictionalised episode from the life of Franz Lehár, 'The Land of Smiles,' was inspired by the picture "Scene from Musical Comedy" (1967) by Jack Brack (held by the University of Western Australia art collection, the Lawrence Wilson Gallery, Nedlands, Perth).

[Source: Rosanne Dingli, Gangway 16 (2000)]

Feverfew, Rosanne Dingli , single work short story

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Perth, Western Australia,: Yellow Teapot Books , 2012 .
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      Extent: 230p.
      Edition info: Revised edition
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Published 9 September 2012
      • Published in both digital and paperback editions.
      ISBN: 9781479254996
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