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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.
  • ©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.
Subjects
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
©2018
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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