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www.cla.sc.edu/CICA
The Website for ‘Caught in the Creative Act’, a course that Janette Turner Hospital teaches at the University of South Carolina.
www.cla.sc.edu/litfest
The University of South Carolina’s Annual Fall Festival of Authors.
www.csj.org
The website of the American Family Foundation, a major independent US group on cult awareness and counselling.
VISIT
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Quilpie, Queensland
www.queenslandholidays.com
Coober Pedy, South Australia
(www.southaustralia.com)
for the annual Opal Festival, held at Easter
(www.opalfestival.com)
SEE
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Burrowing for Fortune, a film by Ray Mueller (50 mins): a documentary about the opal miners of Coober Pedy.
Cunnamulla, a film by Dennis O’Rourke (82 mins, 2000): a documentary about the inhabitants of a small and isolated Queensland town.
Also by Janette Turner Hospital
The Ivory Swing
The Tiger in the Tiger Pit
Borderline
Dislocations
Charades
Isobars
The Last Magician
Collected Stories
North of Nowhere, South of Loss
Due Preparations for the Plague
Orpheus Lost
Forecast: Turbulence
The Claimant
Copyright
HarperPerennial
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First published in 1996 by Virago Press,
A Division of Little, Brown and Company (UK) Brettenham House,
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This edition published in 2015
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Copyright © Janette Turner Hospital 1996
The right of Janette Turner Hospital to be identified as the moral rights author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000 (Cth).
This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be addressed to the publishers.
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
Turner Hospital, Janette.
Oyster.
ISBN 0 7304 4467 1.
I. Title.
A823.4
PS Material prepared by Annabel Blay