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''Anh and Lucien is a compelling celebration of male desire and intimacy – and also a gripping clash of cultures and ideologies. Danger and death pervade Tony Page's sensuous and sensitive evocation of a risky love affair in an alluring, unsettled place and time, Indochina 1940. Intrigue and art, passion and espionage interweave to drive and doom the relationship between Anh, a young revolutionary, and Lucien, a disaffected French bureaucrat. Page skillfully deploys alternating dramatic monologues to increase the tension as loyalty and betrayal merge towards Lucien's final sacrifice.' -- Jan Owen
''The story of desire between two men is told with exquisite beauty and restraint using prose poems, epistolary poems, found poems and documentary poems to build from suspense a tragedy that is also a victory for humanity over small-mindedness and oppression.' -- Jennifer Harrison'
Source: publisher's blurb
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Works about this Work
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Romance, Crime, and Pets : Three Poetry Collections
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 426 2020; (p. 55-56)
— Review of The Alpaca Cantos 2020 selected work poetry ; Anh and Lucien 2020 single work poetry prose ; Scratchland 2020 selected work poetry
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Romance, Crime, and Pets : Three Poetry Collections
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 426 2020; (p. 55-56)
— Review of The Alpaca Cantos 2020 selected work poetry ; Anh and Lucien 2020 single work poetry prose ; Scratchland 2020 selected work poetry
- Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
- 1940