"To the Back of Beyond" is the Swiss novelist's sixth and strangest novel.
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"To the Back of Beyond" takes Mr Stamm's interest in ordinariness to a new level.
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To the Back of Beyond , by Peter Stamm, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann (Other Press) .
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This 2,300-metre mountain is the high point of his new novel, "To the Back of Beyond" (published by Granta in Britain in August, and by Other Press in America in October).
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As places to glimpse creatures great and small, or as gateways to the back of beyond (where you can seriously get away from it all), safari camps may be the ultimate hotel.
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Never KO'd or counted out, Poot Lorlek, the little kid from the back of beyond, the "Angel Boxer," the "Comet from the South," was in a fighting league of his very much own.
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And the idea that it is somehow cool for designers to drag their audience to the back of beyond is an old one (John Galliano and Alexander McQueen had been there, done that, years before), as is the obvious suggestion that the street is the runway.
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The news from the beach is the snowy owl is still hanging in the dunes at Breezy Point at the western end of Queens, still knocking down rats and rabbits for dinner, still letting us know that winter's afoot, that even if spring arrives tomorrow, it's not quite time to head north to the Arctic tundra, the back of beyond.
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Just a hospital loading dock, near resstop south of Rouge, long abandoned, out in the back of beyond, named after some dead saint or billionaire or whathaveyew; the kind of nonincorporated municipality that long ago lost whatever right it had to medical care, the docs just did remote and dropped pharmaceuticals from a great height, and if you needed sutures or something you went down to the town hall and had the bot do it.
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In 2013 its successor At the back of Beyond was again nominated for this prestigious award. She was also nominated for the Elle Personal Style Awards in 2013.
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In 2012, Ntjam Rosie released Live at Grounds, a CD/DVD with live recordings of her performance at the GROUNDS venue in Rotterdam. Her third album, At The Back Of Beyond, came out March 15, 2013, produced by jazz pianist, composer and producer Alexander van Popta. The album title is inspired by the movie Black Narcissus and the guitar plays a much bigger role than on her previous album ‘Elle’. ‘At The Back Of Beyond’ was released on Ntjam Rosie’s own record label Gentle Daze Records.
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The stories— #Footprints in the Jungle #The Door of Opportunity #The Vessel of Wrath #The Book-Bag #The Back of Beyond #Neil MacAdam Note: The short story Neil MacAdam was dramatized for the stage in 1941 by Paulo Braga as O Fruito Proibido.
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Woop Woop is an Australian and New Zealand term meaning far away from anything "he lives out woop woop". Equivalent terms include "beyond the black stump" and "dingo woop woop" (also Australia), "the boondocks" (Southern United States) and "out in the sticks" or "the back of beyond" (UK).
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Ntjam Rosie has opened for Jesse Boykins III in the London Jazz Cafe. Elle was released in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Japan. On August 29, 2013 she also released her third album At The Back Of Beyond in the United Kingdom. Internationally she toured in Turkey, Switzerland, Germany, Estonia, Lithuania, United Kingdom, South Korea, China and Thailand.
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Esmond Gerald "Tom" Kruse MBE (28 August 1914 – 30 June 2011) was a mail carrier on the Birdsville Track in the border area between South Australia and Queensland. He became known nationally as the result of John Heyer's 1954 film The Back of Beyond. He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1955 New Year Honours, "for services to the community in the outback".
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In 1994, Sektor Gaza released Kashchey Bessmertnyi (), a punk-opera based on the famous Russian folklore figure. On this album, Klinskikh performed original lyrics to the melodies of songs by popular groups such as AC/DC, Queen, Ace of Base, and Nirvana. The album ranked in the top 10, and journalists called Sektor Gaza "a young promising group from the back of beyond". In 1995, the group performed at the Rock Summer festival in Tallinn.
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La loma de los tomates/del orto/ de la mierda/del carajo ('tomato/ass/shit/fuck hill') is a vulgar phrase for a very remote place. La concha de la lora ("the parrot's cunt"): an unspecified, possibly remote place, usually used in the insult "Go to ...". A euphemism is Plumas verdes (green feathers). Donde el diablo perdió el poncho ('where the devil lost his poncho'): in a remote place, at the back of beyond.
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While working with The Bulletin, Stewart published six volumes of his own poems, co-edited two books of Australian poetry, and produced a number of verse-plays and a volume of short stories. He also contributed to the script for the award-winning Australian documentary, The Back of Beyond (1954). Stewart, like Campbell, Wright and many poets of his time, drew much of his inspiration from nature, and is best known for his "meditative nature poems".Goodwin (1986) p.
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The Back of Beyond (1954) is a feature-length award-winning Australian documentary film produced and directed by John Heyer for the Shell Film Unit. In terms of breadth of distribution, awards garnered, and critical response, it is Heyer's most successful film. It is also, arguably, Australia's most successful documentary: in 2006 it was included in a book titled 100 Greatest Films of Australian Cinema, with Bill Caske writing that it is "perhaps our [Australia's] national cinema's most well known best kept secret".Caske, Bill (2006) 'The Back of Beyond' in Hocking, Scott (ed.) 100 greatest films of Australian cinema, Scribal Publishing The aim of the film, as requested by the Shell Company, was to associate Shell with the essence of Australia, with Australianism.Glenn, Gordon and Stocks, Ian (1976) 'John Heyer: Documentary Filmmaker' [Interview] in Cinema Papers Sept 1976 pp120-122, 190 Heyer took as his central motif the fortnightly journey made by mailman Tom Kruse, along the remote Birdsville Track from Marree, in South Australia, to Birdsville, in southwest Queensland.
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During the following years he published several more horror novels and short stories, but around 1990 he abandoned literature for about twenty years. He returned in 2011 with a new novel, Amazonas, which came out after his death of pancreatic cancer at the age of 68 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he lived. In 2012, a posthumous collection of his latest stories appeared, entitled The Back of Beyond: New Stories. In 2014, his posthumous novel "The Slave Tree", was released.
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Tom Kruse and the track were immortalised in The Back of Beyond, the 1954 documentary film made by John Heyer. Kruse's services ceased in 1963 to be replaced by an air service from Adelaide that started in 1970. In 2006, as part of the Year of the Outback, the Australian Governor-General, Michael Jeffery, travelled along the track in a 5-day event. The route was earmarked to be signed as part National Route 83 in the original plan of National Routes.
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Margaret arrived in Australia in 1951, six years after the war had ended, but she had no intention on staying. She was soon, however, editing Captain Thunderbolt (1953), a film directed by Cecil Holmes about a bushranger of the same name. She also assisted the reputed ‘father of Australian documentary film’ John Heyer on what was his most successful film The Back of Beyond (1995). She also did some post-synchronizing for well-known film studio Pagewood and many short films as well.
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Biyi Bandele at the 2014 Zanzibar International Film Festival. Biyi Bandele's novels, which include The Man Who Came in from the Back of Beyond (1991) and The Street (1999), have been described as "rewarding reading, capable of wild surrealism and wit as well as political engagement.""Biyi Bandele (Nigeria)" , Centre For Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2011. His 2007 novel, Burma Boy, reviewed in The Independent by Tony Gould, was called "a fine achievement" and lauded for providing a voice for previously unheard Africans.
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The heroine Kalyani (Saroja Devi) goes swimming with friends in a river when she is carried away by strong waves. As she struggles, a bold young man Kathiresan (Sivaji Ganesan) saves her — expectedly, the saving of the damsel in distress leads to both falling in love. Kalyani's father (Ranga Rao) is impressed by the young man's bravery and wishes to get them married on an auspicious day. Two days before the wedding, the hero receives an anonymous letter inviting him to an abandoned bungalow in the back of beyond.
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ABC Rural Each trip would take two weeks and Tom regularly had to manage break-downs, flooding creeks and rivers, and getting bogged in desert dunes. Tom Kruse came to fame with the release of John Heyer's documentary The Back of Beyond in 1954. While the film follows a "typical" journey made by Kruse, showing the various people he met along the Track and the sorts of obstacles he faced, this particular journey was closely scripted and includes a number of re-enactments and a 'lost children' story. John Heyer had undertaken a research trip with Kruse earlier.
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Ecstasy and Wine, however, was released without the band's consent and Kevin Shields retrieved 10,000 LP copies from the manager of Lazy Records soon after its release. Shields sold the records to various distributors in the early 1990s, after My Bloody Valentine were dropped from Creation Records, and used the funds to finance later recording sessions. Upon its release Ecstasy received moderate critical acclaim. Melody Maker referred to the album as "a series of aloof, pastel washes of sound, suspended guitars, words from the back of beyond tying in to a large, shifting whole" and "larger than the sum of its parts".
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Vance Palmer was born in Bundaberg, Queensland, on 28 August 1885 and attended the Ipswich Grammar School. With no university in Queensland, he studied contemporary Australian writing at the intellectual hub in Brisbane at the time, the School of Arts, following the work of A. G. Stephens.Australian Dictionary of Biography - Palmer, Edward Vivian (Vance) (1885–1959) by Geoffrey Serle Working in various jobs, he took a position as a tutor at Abbieglassie cattle station, west of Brisbane in the 'back of beyond'. He also worked as a manager: at that time there was a large Aboriginal population with whom he both worked and celebrated, attending their frequent corroborrees.
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Eclipse was an episode for the 8th season of the British TV series Coming Up.IMDb-entry of Coming Up - episode Eclipse Then Michael Lennox gained a place on the Master of Arts in Fiction directing-course at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield. His work at the university included the short film The Back of Beyond. It was screened as part of the BAFTA NFTS Stars of Tomorrow - event and won the Royal Television Society Student Television Award in the Post Graduate Section. The film also won the Pianifica Award and the Junior Jury Award at the Locarno Film Festival in 2012 and was nominated for the European Film Award.
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David Ian Rabey is a Professor of Theatre and Theatre Practice at Aberystwyth University. He is also the Artistic Director of Lurking Truth (Gwir sy'n Llechu) Theatre Company for which he has written several plays including: Land of My Fathers (first performed 2018), Lovefuries (first performed 2004), The Battle of the Crows (first performed 1998), Bite or Suck (first performed 1997) and The Back of Beyond (first performed 1996). Professor Rabey has staged several of the plays of Howard Barker and has also written several publications on his work. He has also published textbooks on post-war English drama and analysis of the work of David Rudkin, Jez Butterworth and Alistair McDowall, as well as the wider studies Theatre, Time and Temporality and English Drama Since 1940.
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At London's Gate Theatre he directed Jon Fosse's The Child and Paul Godfrey's The Invisible Woman. From 2000-09 Ramin was at the Royal Court Theatre, first as International Associate (2000-05), then as Associate Director (2005-09) where he directed over fifteen world or British premieres. In the Theatre Upstairs these included: Push Up by Roland Schimmelpfennig, Terrorism by the Presnyakov Brothers, Ladybird by Vassily Sigarev, Way To Heaven by Juan Mayorga, Woman and Scarecrow by Marina Carr, Just a Bloke by David Watson, and Scenes from the Back of Beyond by Meredith Oakes. In the Theatre Downstairs he directed Simon Stephens' Motortown, Max Frisch's The Arsonists, Martin Crimp's Advice to Iraqi Women, two plays by Marius von Mayenburg, The Ugly One, and The Stone, and Over There by Mark Ravenhill (also Schaubűhne, Berlin).
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John Heyer and Ross Wood, his cinematographer, had both worked for the Commonwealth Film Unit prior to joining Shell. Lauren Williams argues that "Wood's accomplished visual style and Heyer's grasp of film language combine in [the film] to create some of the most iconic images of the Australian outback filmed in this period". It is generally accepted that The Back of Beyond belongs broadly to the British Documentary movement, and is also seen as being part of a landscape documentary tradition that can be found in the works of Pare Lorentz, Robert Flaherty and Harry Watt.Williams, Deane (2002) 'International documentary film-maker: John Heyer (14/9/1916-19/6/2001)' in Metro Magazine No. 129/130 pp. 248–253 It is best regarded, however, for the lyrical and poetic quality it brings to these traditions.
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It was finished in May 1949 and was delivered by Dalgety & Co. Ltd by rail to Marree where it was collected by Tom Kruse who was the mail contractor for the area between Marree and Birdsville. The barge was reported as being in constant use for the first three years of service; in particular, the “Copper Crossing was impassable for six months” in 1949. The barge was featured in The Back of Beyond, the 1954 documentary produced by John Heyer, being used by Tom Kruse and a passenger to move goods across a flooded creek. In either 1960 or 1963, it was replaced with a larger vessel capable of transporting both stock and vehicles operated by either one of the following South Australian government departments - the Engineering and Water Supply Department or the Highways Department.
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The D-Word Documentary community John Burgan is the author of entries on Robert Vas, Jean-Pierre Gorin and The Back of Beyond in the Encyclopaedia of the Documentary Film edited by Ian Aitken.New York and London: Routledge, 2006 Burgan's Friendly Enemy Alien received "Best Documentary" at the "Achtung Berlin New Berlin Film Awards" in 2006.Achtung Berlin New Berlin Film Awards John Burgan taught the documentary course at the European Film College in Ebeltoft, Denmark for two years from 2006 before returning to the United Kingdom to take up a teaching and research post at Aberystwyth University in 2008. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, he is currently Visiting Fellow Visiting Fellow Staff Profile, University of South Wales at the University of South Wales and is once again based in the German capital.
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