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Sara Dowse
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Papers of Sara Dowse
The Acc08.120 instalment comprises drafts and research material for articles, essays, stories, speeches and an unpublished novel. There are also papers associated with Dowse's chairmanship of the judging panel for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2006, and correspondence (2 boxes).
As the Lonely Fly
As the Lonely Fly is a profoundly moving novel from one of Australia’s most gifted storytellers. Shining a light on the dispersal of peoples and the intertwined fates of Jews and Palestinians, it is a story with deep contemporary resonance. Three remarkable women — an American immigrant, an ardent Israeli and a fearless revolutionary — lend three very different perspectives on the creation of Israel and its impact on Palestinians. In 1967, the American actor Marion Arkin visits her niece Zipporah, three months after the Six Day War in which Israel seized the Gaza Strip from Egypt, the West Bank from Jordan, and the Golan Heights from Syria. Marion has never visited Israel before, but s...
Sara Dowse, Digging
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West Block
A timeless classic of gender and Australian federal politics. 'Ministers came and went and reappeared, seeking to lay their hands on a splendid prize: the machinery of government.' It is 1977, two years after Australia’s constitutional crisis. The bureaucrats in West Block, home of the Prime Minister’s department, are recovering from the shock of Gough Whitlam’s dismissal. George Harland schemes to preserve his departmental standing. Henry Beeker stakes his career on stalling a policy while Catherine Duffy risks her life rescuing victims of an ill-conceived one. Jonathan Roe sets off the tripwires in textbook economics. And all the while Cassie Armstrong, head of the department’s women’s unit, is driven to despair. Life is tense in West Block. Pigeons nest in the leaking roof. A move is imminent: it’s feared the government plans to tear it down. The old time bureaucrats are adjusting to a new, feminist presence in its corridors. But West Block is more than just a rundown public service office building. Here is the nation in microcosm.
West Block: New Edition
A timeless classic of gender and federal politics, Sara Dowse's West Block was first published in 1983. This new edition is a timely retrospective on how Australia's capital, Canberra, and it's political and bureaucratic elite have and haven't changed in the past four decades.
Canberra Tales
'This book is a collective effort. In 1980 some of the writers met for the first time to form a writers' group. The group, "Seven Writers", now flourishes and gives each member the necessary support and critical encouragement to develop her own and the others' work. When the group formed no one had published more than a few short stories or poems.' -- From the Introduction to Canberra Tales, first published in 1988 and reissued in 1995 as The Division of Love.Canberra Tales offers an authentic taste of life in the nation's capital during the 1980s, as well as the work of each of its members: Marion Halligan, Dorothy Johnston, Margaret Barbalet, Sara Dowse, Suzanne Edgar, Marian Eldridge and Dorothy Horsfield. Between them they went on to produce works that have received critical acclaim and won or were shortlisted for multiple prestigious awards. Marion Halligan, Sara Dowse and Margaret Barbalet all have other books in the Untapped Collection.
Sapphires
Drawing on the Yiddish tradition of story-telling, the award-winning Sapphires is constructed of thirteen interlinked stories that tell of journeys in the lives of the descendants of Ruchel Kozminsky who left Russia in the 1890s--Miriam, Bernice, Janet, Alice and most centrally Evelyn, a Sydney-based television comedy writer. A haunting, evocative and often funny account of love, family and belonging.Sapphires was first published in 1994 and won the ACT Book of the Year Award in 1995. Sara Dowse is also the author of West Block (1993; 2020), Digging (1996) and, more recently, As the Lonely Fly (2017).
The Division of Love
A collection of stories funded by the Australian Bicentennial Authority to celebrate Australia's Bicentenary in 1988 and originally published in that year as 'Canberra Tales'. The authors are part of a group of writers known as the 'Seven Writers' who first met in Canberra in 1980 to support and critically encourage each other. The stories cover a wide range of experiences including a man's strange pact with his dying daughter and sadism which erupts out of the commonplaces of a broken marriage. Between the authors they have published seven books.
That Looks on Tempests
That Looks on Tempests is Barbie Robinson's third solo book of poetry and the first to be published by For Pity Sake. The work is highly personal, created as part of Barbie’s ‘Gratitude Project’ after a life-saving stem cell transplant. "People, Places and Paradoxes. That Looks on Tempests - Thoughts on the nature of love is a sensitive, evocative collection. A wry interrogation of the ambiguity inherent in the poet’s embrace of a new home and the courage it takes to love, Barbie Robinson’s third book of poetry contains a playfulness to delight the reader along with sudden insights into the nature of relationships. Here we delve into the richness of a migrant’s experience, the lands inhabited and the creatures, human and otherwise, who reside forever in her soul." -- Sara Dowse, author of West Block and As the Lonely Fly.
