Maralinga, My Love
McPhee Gribble/Penguin, 264 pp, $12.99 pb
Fiction
Maralinga, My Love by Dorothy Johnston
by Helen Daniel •
Among the stories by seven women writers in the recent collections, Canberra Tales, there is a haunting story by Dorothy Johnston, in which, in the improbable setting of contemporary Canberra, she conjures up the figure of a mythical boatman rowing across the waters of Lake Burley Griffin. The image lingers, shimmering and numinous.
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