Glenda Adams, Author Cane Hill Press $10.95 (339p) ISBN 978-0-943433-09-7
As a 10-year-old boy in post-WW II Australia, William Badger is as stern and careful as a little old man. In its frightening simplicity, his daily existence with his mad, alternately seductive and spurning mother and his much older, crippled,...
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Glenda Adams, Author Penguin Books $7.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-14-009343-8
Lark Watter travels from her home in Australia to the U.S., spends some time on an uncharted island and marries a man in a media-event street ceremony that is interrupted by another woman. PW found this ""an exuberant first novel, wickedly funny and
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Glenda Adams, Author Cane Hill Press $8.94 (125p) ISBN 978-0-943433-03-5
In a collection that will particularly interest feminists, Australian writer Adams ( Dancing on Coral ) displays a commendable range of subject and of tone. The strongest stories map the casual cruelty of men toward women--a father tells his...
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Glenda Adams, Author Cane Hill Press $8.95 (180p) ISBN 978-0-943433-02-8
This tedious novel envisions a futuristic society beset by frequent revolutions and characterized by cruel bureaucracies. Adams (see review above) clutters her tale with artifices, conjuring whole cultures, governments--even a fictitious language....
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Glenda Adams, Author Faber & Faber $22.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-571-19897-9
Australian writer Adams (Dancing on Coral) has a deserved reputation in her home country as a magical storyteller, but her current work, a brave but muddled mishmash of interlocking novels within novels, may not persuade American readers of her...
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