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Second Sight (1986) is a novel by Australian writer Janine Burke. It was originally published by Greenhouse Publications in Australia in 1986.

Critical reception

Marion Halligan, writing in The Canberra Times, compared this novel with the author's first and found this to be a "sharper, briefer, more elliptical narrative, the story of one woman encountering death and depression, and weathering the experience, largely through the intervention of a magically mysterious couple who carry her off to Tuscany." Halligan concluded that the author "can use words with the sharpness and freshness and immediacy of an Impressionist painting..It is this liveliness, and not the portentousness of death, doom, despair, that gives us glimpses of the real writer that Janine Burke is in the process of becoming."

Publication history

After its original publication in 1986 in Australia by publisher Greenhouse Publications the novel was later reprinted as follows:

• Untapped, Australian, 2021

Awards

• Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, winner 1987

See also

• 1986 in Australian literature

References

1. "Austlit — Second Sight by Janine Burke (Greenhouse Publications) 1989". Austlit. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
2. ""Imagination and liveliness"". The Canberra Times, 27 June 1987, p5. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
3. "Second Sight (Greenhouse Publications 1986)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
4. "Second Sight (Untapped 2021)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
5. "Austlit — Vance Palmer Prize 1987". Austlit. Retrieved 13 December 2023.

• 1986 Australian novels