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The Golden Age
AuthorGail Jones
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherVintage, Australia
Publication date
2011
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages216
ISBN9781864710601
Preceded bySorry 

Five Bells (2011) is a novel by Australian author Gail Jones.

Plot summary

Five Bells concerns four main characters who visit Circular Quay in Sydney on the same day: Ellie, a PhD student; James, a teacher; Catherine, an Irish woman mourning the loss of her brother; and Pei Xing, a Chinese woman.

Notes

  • Epigraph: Memory believes before knowing remembers - William Falkner, Light in August
   Where have you gone? The tide is over you,

   The turn of midnight water's over you,

   As Time is over you, and mystery,

   And memory, the flood that does not flow.

   -Kenneth Slessor, "Five Bells"
  • "The first debt of this project is to Kenneth Slessor's elegiac poem, Five Bells (1939), which returned to me, like a remembered song, one midnight on a ferry in the centre of Circular Quay". (Author's acknowledgements: p.217)

Reviews

  • Australian Book Review[1]
  • The Sydney Morning Herald[2]

Awards and nominations

References

  1. ^ "Gail Jones: Five Bells" Felicity Plunkett, Australian Book Review, February 2011
  2. ^ "Five Bells" by Peter Pierce, The Sydney Morning Herald, 29 January 2011
  3. ^ "Barbara Jefferis Award Winner 2012"
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