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Oceana Fine

Oceana Fine is a 1990 Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Tom Flood.[1]

Oceana Fine
First edition
AuthorTom Flood
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
PublisherAllen & Unwin, Australia
Publication date
1989
Media typePaperback
Pages261 pp
ISBN0-04-910111-0
OCLC21834255
823 20
LC ClassPR9619.3.F535 O27 1989

Synopsis edit

Finn Taylor is a university student who goes to work on a Western Australian wheat silo during his summer holidays. Beneath the land lie unused mine shafts, and above, the wheat silos. This novel is part mystery, part psychological thriller and part fantasy as it follows the rises and falls of a faming family.

Awards edit

Critical reception edit

Marian Eldridge in The Canberra Times notes that the novel "takes on the soaring characteristics of magic realism as Flood seeks to create myth through evocation of landscape, family histories, legend ("wheat babies", what a lovely addition to our folklore), and through memory. There is a youthful sexual encounter that, upon its retelling - or reliving - or beginning afresh - has subtly changed as the narrator has changed. Time rolls forward, then, like a change of wind across a wheatfield, rolls back again."[3]

References edit

  1. ^ "Austlit - Oceana Fine". Austlit. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  2. ^ ""Second major prize for book"". The Canberra Times, 22 June 1990, p16. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  3. ^ ""Few faltering notes from Goldsworthy"". The Canberra Times, 25 November 1989, p4. Retrieved 9 July 2023.


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