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  • Evil Angels

    The Case of Lindy Chamberlain

    by John Bryson ...
    The basis for the Meryl Streep film A Cry in the Dark: The dramatic true story of a mother's worst nightmare and the murder trial that shocked Australia.On a camping trip at Ayer's Rock, the Chamberlain family's infant daughter disappeared in the middle of the night. Her distraught mother, Lindy, claimed she saw a dingo carry her off into the Australian outback. Two years later, their tragedy ... Read more

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  • Three Revolutions

    in the Equatorial Americas

    by John Bryson ...
    Three Revolutions in the Equatorial Americas.A volume of three feature pieces treating revolutions in each of Panama, Nicaragua and the building of tensions in Haiti.In Panama, a Pantomime.Billed as support for a rebellion against General Noriega, the US invaded Panama for Christmas 1989. A year later Western expatriates in their clubs and enclaves were still divided.GENERAL NORIEGA'S portrait ... Read more

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  • A World This Size

    Selected Stories

    by John Bryson ...
    A World This Size.You will have a restaurant like this in your city.And, if you have spent time eating alone in restaurants, you will have felt the reverie of the imagination, which will cause you to scrutinise other diners for clues to their personalities and attribute to them lives you could find interesting. This is the story here.A little Baroque music struts overhead. Here a man sits by ... Read more

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  • In Rage, Rebellion

    by John Bryson ...
    In Rage, Rebellion - A volume comprising three feature pieces:Backstage at the RevolutionWhile the African National Congress was a banned organization in South Africa, and the white minority ruled with gunfire, the ANC theatre troupe Amandla toured the world. Amandla is Power. Every performer is a trained soldier and musician, dancer. Here is their tour of Australia.Beginning in darkness, the ... Read more

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  • Islanders, Far South

    by John Bryson ...
    Islanders, Far South - Three feature pieces and one column piece in one volume, events in the lives of southern fishing communities in Tasmania.1.Pride of the Crayfish Fleet.Life in the Bass Strait Islands, out of the Port of Lady Barron.THE CRAYFISH I HOLD in my hand is forty years old. By whatever system of temporal measurement crayfish use, it is a very old man. In a few weeks its tail will be ... Read more

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  • Service Worlds

    People, Organisations, Technologies

    by John Bryson, Peter Daniels, Barney Warf ...
    As the twenty-first century begins, significant changes are occurring in the way that services and goods are produced and consumed. One of the key drivers of this change is information and communications technology (ICT). It has transformed the role of space and time in patterns of economic development, in the rise of globalization and in the scale and structure of organizations. ICT has therefore ... Read more

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  • Whoring Around

    A Novella

    by John Bryson ...
    Whoring Around, a novella in six stories.PrologueBlowing ItBetween WhoresDreaming of GloryA Sense of ProprietyMore and more we lunched at his tennis club. He had recently become its honorary treasurer. I remember an afternoon, with the washed blues and faint yellows of early winter, when we ate on the terrace. The stonework was damp where the sun had not touched it. The other tables were empty, so ... Read more

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  • The Personality of War

    by John Bryson ...
    The Personality of War - A volume comprising five pieces.Dresden.Now an old man, a onetime Air Force flyer recalls his time in the night sky during the bombing of Dresden.For the incineration of a hundred and forty thousand souls, if things went right, for the destruction of a graceful city, of its old walls and obedient gardens, they flew east. He was the navigator.Rehearsals for the Death of ... Read more

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  • Among the Very Foreign

    by John Bryson ...
    Five Asian pieces, four from Kalimantan, Singapore, Taipei, Hong Kong, and one column piece from Samarinda, in one volume.His Brow in Feathers, the Dyak Chieftain and his Equation for the Order of Time.A Festival of Redemption, led by the Chief of the People Benuaq, Dyaks of the Central Lakes, Borneo.His lake was once a mountain, which inverted its form in an act of compassion for people who were ... Read more

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  • To the Death, Amic

    by John Bryson ...
    A novel written true to the histories, and true to the memories of Enric Torres i Barbo, whose life and philosophies this novel takes for its guide.Twin boys Enric and Josep, at ten years of age, served as spies and couriers in the Resistance by the Republican Spanish against the invasion of Fascist forces in Spain, then from Italy and Germany during the Civil War.In Catalonia the war begins in ... Read more

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  • Fancygoods, Over the Mountains

    by John Bryson ...
    Here is Brodie, an expatriate trader in New Guinea, whose understanding of the sorceries and rituals he now lives with is moving close to respect and wonderment. He watches his visiting daughter, a twelve year old, being captivated by this culture of theatre.The place was packed. Tiptoe, over the matt-black heads of the crowd, he could see the performers. He edged closer, but so rapt was everyone ... Read more

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  • Brilliant Artists in Trio

    by John Bryson ...
    Brilliant Artists in TrioA volume of three feature pieces.Janet Baker, the Wind in Her Hair.Opera's Dame Janet, now retired from the stage to song performance, takes to sea on a yacht, the better to understand the rhythms of Elgar's Sea Pictures, of which she is already the world's authority.She was playing with the sound of the waves from the bow, it seemed to me, "Never before under sail', she ... Read more

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