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The man on the mantelpiece : a memoir

Title

The man on the mantelpiece : a memoir / Marion May Campbell.

Author

Campbell, Marion, 1948-

Publication

Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2018.
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Description

ix, 232 pages : portrait; 20 cm

Summary

During a 1952 electric storm off Wattamolla NSW a waterspout drew in the CSIRO Cloud Physics Dakota, atomising all those aboard, including the writer's father. Or did it? When his living body has disappeared, what to make of the uniformed man on the mantelpiece? Just as the waterspout gathers up living creatures and broken things to transport them elsewhere, this memoir dreams its way into the fragments of his life, along with the queer fall-out in its wake. When her grief-stricken mother deifies the disappeared, the daughter strives to become him. Sometimes it seems that fateful scenarios, including Cold War conspiracies and ill-conceived scientific projects, converge on the man on the mantelpiece; but at times of grace he steps down joyfully to resume the dance with the living.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biography.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JFD 19-3866

ISBN

9781760800031
1760800031

OCLC

1056703498

Author

Campbell, Marion, 1948- author.

Title

The man on the mantelpiece : a memoir / Marion May Campbell.

Publisher

Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2018.

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Research Call Number

JFD 19-3866

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