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Mar 21, 2024 · T he latest novel by the award-winning Sydney-based writer Gail Jones – author of 10 novels, a couple of short story collections and numerous critical works – is a complex and delicately ...
Gail Jones was born in Harvey, Western Australia. She grew up in Broome and Kalgoorlie. [1] She studied fine arts briefly at the University of Melbourne before returning to Western Australia where she took her undergraduate degree and PhD from the University of Western Australia in 1994. [2] Her thesis was titled Mimesis and alterity ...
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Feb 28, 2024 · Gail Jones' novel interweaves the life of the Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad with that of a young Australian student of literature. The novel explores the themes of colonialism, loss, immersion and the transformative potential of reading.
- Sue Kossew
Sep 17, 2021 · Gayl Jones met her partner, Bob Higgins, when she was an assistant professor at the University of Michigan in the late 1970s. He studied philosophy at Michigan and was reportedly a volatile activist.
- Imani Perry
Dec 30, 2022 · Gail Jones. Text, $34.99. In 1917 the cosmopolitan and multicultural city of Thessaloniki, then best known as Salonika, was largely incinerated by a fire that began with a single rogue spark in a ...
- Kerryn Goldsworthy
Gail Jones lives in Sydney and teaches at the University of Western Sydney. Her books have won numerous literary awards in Australia. She is the author of two collections of short stories and five novels including Sixty Lights which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Dreams of Speaking which was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and longlisted for the Orange ...
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Dec 19, 2022 · A review of Gail Jones' new novel, Salonika Burning, which explores the experiences of four Australians and Britons in Macedonia during the first world war. The novel challenges the role of art as witness and the notion of historical time as linear and coherent.
