Inner and Outer Worlds: Gail Jones' Fiction

Description

Gail Jones is one of Australia's foremost contemporary novelists. Her books have won or been shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award, the Miles Franklin Award, the Stella Prize, and numerous state literary awards. They are taught in high schools and universities across the country. This collection of essays offers reflections on Jones' fiction by leading Australian and international literary critics. For readers who loved Sixty Lights, Five Bells, Sorry and Jones' other novels, and for students of Jones' work, this book will be an illuminating companion. With chapters on her use of language, her thematic preoccupations, and her place in local and global literary culture, it is a timely guide to the work of an exceptional Australian writer.

Anthony Uhlmann is director of the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University.

"The end result is a profound sense of Gail Jones's work as a body of fiction that proliferates ideas in all directions, leading us, as Uhlmann notes, into multiple and 'resonant spaces of knowledge'. " -- Dr Julieanne Lamond * Australian Book Review *