Black Mirror (novel)

Black Mirror
Author Gail Jones
Country Australia
Language English
Genre novel
Publisher Picador, Australia
Publication date
2002
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 304
ISBN 0330363565
Followed by Sixty Lights

Black Mirror (2002) is a novel by Australian author Gail Jones. It won the Fiction category of the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards in 2002 and the Nita Kibble Literary Award in 2003.

Plot summary

A biographer, Anna Griffin, is interviewing Victoria Morrell about her childhood in a gold-mining town in Western Australia and her subsequent flight to Paris in the 1930s, as a young artist. There Victoria found herself caught up in a surrealist circle of painters and writers (André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, even Salvador Dalí). As the interview progresses Anna comes to examine her own childhood in the same town some 60 years later.

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References

  1. Armstrong, Judith (February 2003). "In Retrospect: Black Mirror by Gail Jones". Australian Book Review.
  2. Oreb, Naomi (2009). "Mirroring, Depth and Inversion: Holding Gail Jones’s 'Black Mirror' Against Contemporary Australia". Sydney Studies in English. 35.
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