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Hospital, Janette Turner
Hospital, Janette Turner (1942– ), novelist and short- story writer, born in Melbourne, Australia, and studied at the University of Queensland, and at Queen's University, Canada. The Ivory Swing (1982) won the Canadian Seal First Novel Award. Her other novels include The Tiger in the Tiger Pit (1983), Borderline (1985), Charades (1988), The Last Magician (1992), Oyster (1996), and Due Preparations for the Plague (2003, a thriller). Her allusive, lyrical prose and intricate narratives have been much admired. The theme of dislocation—both cultural and emotional—is recurrent in her work, as is the way in which the past influences and can discolour the present. She elaborates these themes in her collections of short stories, Dislocations (1986), Isobars (1990), and Collected Stories (1995).
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Hospital, Janette Turner." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Hospital, Janette Turner." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-HospitalJanetteTurner.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Hospital, Janette Turner." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-HospitalJanetteTurner.html |
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