Five Bells (novel)

Five Bells
First edition
AuthorGail Jones
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherVintage, Australia
Publication date
2011
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages216
ISBN9781864710601
Preceded bySorry 
Followed byA Guide to Berlin 

Five Bells (2011) is a novel by Australian author Gail Jones.[1]

Plot summary

Five Bells concerns four main characters who visit Circular Quay in Sydney on the same day: Ellie, a PhD student; James, a teacher; Catherine, an Irish woman mourning the loss of her brother; and Pei Xing, a Chinese woman.

Notes

Where have you gone? The tide is over you,
The turn of midnight water's over you,
As Time is over you, and mystery,
And memory, the flood that does not flow.
—–Kenneth Slessor, "Five Bells"

  • "The first debt of this project is to Kenneth Slessor's elegiac poem, "Five Bells" (1939), which returned to me, like a remembered song, one midnight on a ferry in the centre of Circular Quay". (Author's acknowledgements: p. 217)

Reviews

  • Australian Book Review[2]
  • The Sydney Morning Herald[3]

Awards and nominations

See also

References

  1. ^ "Five Bells by Gail Jones". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
  2. ^ "Gail Jones: Five Bells" by Felicity Plunkett, Australian Book Review, February 2011
  3. ^ "Five Bells" by Peter Pierce, The Sydney Morning Herald, 29 January 2011
  4. ^ ""'All That I Am' wins 2012 Barbara Jefferis Award"". Books+Publishing. Retrieved 27 March 2024.