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Contents
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Post-puberty, Men Still Behaving Badly,
single work
review
— Review of After the Blues 2017 single work novel ;(p. 14) Section: Review'Kathy Lette was famous, or at least notorious, in Australia when she was only 16, following the 1979 publication of Puberty Blues, which she wrote with Gabrielle Carey. The novel was a startling, even frightening, account of the surfie culture around Cronulla in the 1970s.' (Introduction)
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Hot on the Trail of Dirty Deeds,
single work
review
— Review of Wimmera 2017 single work novel ; Fatal Mistake 2017 single work novel ; The Student 2017 single work novel ; And Fire Came Down 2017 single work novel ;(p. 16) Section: Review'For Emma Viskic, the challenge of her second novel, And Fire Came Down, is to build on the success of her prize-winning 2015 debut, Resurrection Bay. Appearing again is one of the most intriguing recent protagonists of Australian crime fiction: the deaf private investigator Caleb Zelic, a man self-destructively redoubtable and the cause — as he fears — of harm all around him.' (Introduction)
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Classic Clarke Has Last Laugh,
single work
review
— Review of A Pleasure to Be Here : The Best of Clarke and Dawe 1989–2017 2017 selected work interview ; Tinkering : The Complete Book of John Clarke 2017 selected work poetry prose essay ; The Tournament 2002 single work novel ;(p. 18) Section: Review'What an extraordinary fellow John Clarke was: a comedian who savoured poetry, a political satirist who didn’t do impersonations, a comic genius who was genial. When Clarke died in April, aged 68, while tracking down his beloved birds in the bush, it was apparent he was special to a great swag of people. He was special to people because he was special in himself.' (Introduction)
