Acknowledgments

I had the good fortune to benefit from the editorial guidance of Jane Palfreyman, Alison Samuel and Pat Strachan. Sarah Lutyens did what she does brilliantly, and it was a pleasure to work with Caren Florance and Ali Lavau.

Ian Britain, Glenn D’Cruz, Gail Jones, Anna Schwartz and Chris Wallace-Crabbe advised me on the manuscript. Jan Nelson offered conversation about art and artists, while John Chambers enlightened me about bond trading in the 1980s. Kate Darian-Smith and Glenda Sluga facilitated my research by offering me a fellowship at the Australian Centre in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne. I am grateful to them all.

Thank you also to Émilie Asselineau, Alexandre Asselineau and Ned Lutyens for their hand in this book.

Chris Andrews read every draft of the manuscript, and was always insightful and encouraging; which is a wholly inadequate acknowledgment of the extent of my debt to him.

The following books were particularly useful in the writing of this one: Illuminations (Fontana 1973) and One-Way Street and Other Writings (NLB 1979) by Walter Benjamin; The Lie of the Land (Faber 1996) by Paul Carter; Farewell to an Idea: Episodes in the History of Modernism (Yale University Press 1999) by T. J. Clark; The Practice of Everyday Life (University of Minnesota Press 1988) by Michel de Certeau; The Oxford Book of Australian Ghost Stories (Oxford University Press 1994) edited by Ken Gelder; A Private Life of Henry James: Two Women and His Art (Chatto & Windus 1998) by Lyndall Gordon; and The Country of Lost Children: An Australian Anxiety (Cambridge University Press 1999) by Peter Pierce.

The Lost Dog also draws directly and obliquely on works by Henry James.

The lines quoted on page 37 are from ‘The Lost Man’ by Judith Wright in A Human Pattern: Selected Poems (ETT Imprint, Sydney 1996). Reprinted by permission of ETT Imprint.

The line quoted on page 237 is from ‘The Choice’ by W. B. Yeats in Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (Macmillan, London 1967). Reprinted by permission of A. P. Watt Ltd on behalf of Gráinne Yeats.

The lyrics quoted on page 341 are from Christmas Where the Gum Trees Grow by Lesley Davies. Reprinted by permission of Lesley Davies.

Michelle de Kretser

Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and emigrated to Australia when she was 14. She was educated in Melbourne and Paris. Michelle has worked as a university tutor, editor and a book reviewer. She is the author of two other novels, The Rose Grower and The Hamilton Case.