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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
2002

Pages
  
304

Originally published
  
2002

Page count
  
304

ISBN
  
0330363565

3.6/5
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Publisher
  
Picador, Australia

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Followed by
  
Sixty Lights

Author
  
Gail Jones

Genre
  
Novel

Country
  
Australia

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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.

Contents

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.

Reviews

  • Judith Armstrong, in Australian Book Review, called the book "an alluring example of the retrospective novel, one that uses the device of a biographer's interviews with her subject to prod the reconstruction of memories."
  • Naomi Oreb, in Sydney Studies in English, argues that Black Mirror "foregrounds the need to rectify past and present injustices and the importance of Indigenous Reconciliation through the filter of the surrealist art movement."

    • Awards and nominations

  • 2002 winner - Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Fiction
  • 2003 winner - Nita Kibble Literary Award
  • 2003 - shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award — Fiction Prize

    • References

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