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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Imagined Lives Make History
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'Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.” So wrote American novelist Steven Millhauser. Two ambitious Australian novels, Sara Dowse’s As the Lonely Fly and Bram Presser’s The Book of Dirt, turn to fiction where history has failed and memory is fading.'

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    y separately published work icon The Weekend Australian 18 November 2017 12259171 2017 newspaper issue 2017 pg. 23 Section: Review
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