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Grahm Sheil (1938- ), born Melbourne, has combined the management of a wholesale optical company with a career as an author. He has published short stories in numerous periodicals and anthologies and in two collections, War's End (1981) and Islands (1986). He has also written a novel, Christmas Trees in the Sky (1991), and several plays including 'Mad Like Lasseter' (1977), 'Work-A-Day World' (1981), 'New Australians Rehearse the Working Man's Paradise', based on William Lane's efforts to create a Utopian society in Paraguay (1983), 'This is the Way the World Ends' (1987), 'Christmas Trees in the Sky' (1989), River of Fire (1991), Bali: Adat (1991) and The Dead Heart, a study of the explorer Edward John Eyre (1991). He has won several awards for his short fiction including the Sun-News Pictorial Award, the 'Rolf Boldrewood' Award, the Syme Newspapers Australia Day Award, and the Bicentennial State of Victoria Award. The linked stories of War's End, set mainly in rural Victoria in the years immediately after the Second World War, are based on autobiographical experience and relate the development of a boy into adulthood, his quest for a heroic model, pursuit of his writing vocation and coming to terms with the failed figure of his father. The subjects of the more varied stories of Islands range from the fire-bombing of Dresden to Bali to the familiar territory of War's End; firmly directed and punctuated with well-rendered dramatic or comic scenes, Sheil's stories have as an underlying theme the perennial isolation of human kind. Christmas Trees in the Sky returns to the fire-bombing of Dresden, interweaving the experiences of several witnesses of the atrocity, an Australian POW, his German supervisor and the latter's wife. Source: Oxford Companion to Australian Literature
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ISLANDS.
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Pascoe Publishing, Fairfield, Australia, 1986
ISBN 10: 0959210482
ISBN 13: 9780959210484
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Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
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Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing, a trade paperback original. The second collection of stories, including many prize winners, by this Australian author. Themes in the 15 stories range from the fire-bombing of Dresden, to the struggles of ordinary people, Aborigines, Bali and more. 187 pp Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (usual toning to the pages, bookstore stamp on first page). Seller Inventory # 84379
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Islands
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Pascoe Publishing, Melbourne, 1986
ISBN 10: 0959210482
ISBN 13: 9780959210484
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Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
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Softcover. 1st Edition. Octavo Size. Very Good condition. Mild age-toning to covers and page edges. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 187 pages. Prize-winning stories from the Australian playwright and writer. Range in scope from the fire-bombing of Dresden, Lasseter's gold, Bali, Indigenous Australia, the dispossesed of Europe. Seller Inventory # 123434
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Islands
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Pascoe Publishing, Fairfield 3078, 1986
ISBN 10: 0959210482
ISBN 13: 9780959210484
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Seller: Good Reading Secondhand Books, Benalla, VIC, Australia
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. 187 pages, the front cover's outer edges are lightly bumped; there is very minolr foxing on the fore edge and the pages are tanned, else clean, unmarked and solid. "Graham Sheil's boyhood was divided between Melbourne's outer eastern suburbs and the goldmining country south of Ballarat where his father had gold and diatomaceous mines. He left school at fifteen and began writing in the late 1960s. He managed a wholesale optical company as well as writing. His short stories appeared in many periodicals and anthologies in Australia, the United States, Canada and China. Sheil also wrote several plays" (Auslit). Seller Inventory # 021649