 First edition | |
| Author | Glenda Adams |
|---|---|
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Angus & Robertson (Aus) |
Publication date | 1987 |
| Media type | Paperback |
| Pages | 291 pp |
| ISBN | 0-670-81242-0 |
| OCLC | 13947149 |
| 823 19 | |
| LC Class | PR9619.3.A324 D3 1987 |
| Preceded by | Games of the Strong |
| Followed by | Longleg |
Dancing on Coral is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Glenda Adams.[1][2]
Synopsis
Lark Watter is desperate to leave behind her life in suburban Sydney in the 1960s. At university she meets an American, Tom Brown, and travels with him across the Pacific by freighter to a new life in the USA.
Critical reception
Marion Halligan, in The Canberra Times referred to the novel as a "fine farce" and noted that the author "seems rather more interested in the episodes than the essentials; or maybe she sees herself as hiding the essentials in order to make her readers work at discovery. But I found that the pleasures of this book were in the multiplicity and complexity of its episodes, pleasures which appeal to the intellect as games and puzzles do. Emotions aren't important, amusement is."[3]
Awards
- Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1987: winner[4]
- New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, 1987: winner[4]
Notes
Parts of this novel first appeared in Lies and Stories and The Hottest Night of the Century.[5]
References
- ↑ Adams, Glenda; Wyndham, Susan, (writer of introduction.); Text Publishing, (issuing body) (2013), Dancing on Coral, The Text Publishing Company, ISBN 978-1-922148-18-6
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ "Dancing on Coral". Tharunka. Vol. 34, no. 8. New South Wales, Australia. 20 June 1988. p. 26. Retrieved 4 November 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ ""Fine farce in a saga of youth"". The Canberra Times, 19 September 1987, p5. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
- 1 2 "Austlit - Dancing on Coral - Awards". Austlit. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
- ↑ "Austlit - Dancing on Coral by Glenda Adams". Austlit. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
See also