Some Doves and Pythons

Some Doves and Pythons
First US edition
AuthorSumner Locke Elliott
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarper & Row (US)
Publication date
1966
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages249

Some Doves and Pythons is a 1966 novel by Sumner Locke Elliott.[1]

It was his second novel following Careful He Might Hear You. Elliott later said "I wanted it to be very different and: (a) I wanted it to have an American setting and (b) I wanted totally different characters."[2]

  1. ^ "Some Doves and Pythons by Sumner Locke Elliott". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  2. ^ "PS: WE HEAR YOU Sumner Locke Elliott: An interview in New York", The Bulletin, John Ryan Comic Collection (Specific issues)., Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 27 December 1983, nla.obj-1605128490, retrieved 7 October 2024 – via Trove