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'Frustrated by country life and eager for adventure and excitement, seventeen-year-old Tom Button moves to the city to study. Once there, and living in a run-down apartment block called Cairo, he is befriended by the eccentric musician Max Cheever, his beautiful wife Sally, and their close-knit circle of painters and poets.
As Tom falls under the sway of his charismatic older friends, he enters a bohemian world of parties and gallery openings. Soon, however, he is caught up in more sinister events involving deception and betrayal, not to mention one of the greatest unsolved art heists of the twentieth century: the infamous theft of Picasso’s Weeping Woman.
Set among the demimonde — where nothing and nobody is as they seem — Cairo is a novel about growing up, the perils of first love, and finding one’s true place in the world.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Dedication: For Reuben
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
- Large print.
- Braille.
- Dyslexic edition.
Works about this Work
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Book Review – Cairo by Chris Womersley
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Booklover Book Reviews 2015;
— Review of Cairo 2013 single work novel -
Review : Cairo
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , November 2013; (p. 35)
— Review of Cairo 2013 single work novel -
Cairo, Melbourne (Two Novels: One beautiful, One an Instant Classic)
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Crikey , September 2013;
— Review of Cairo 2013 single work novel ; The Memory Trap 2013 single work novel 'Jim Morgan is entertained by two fine new novels set in Melbourne: ‘The Memory Trap’ and ‘Cairo’, and wonders if “a man’s worth is measured by his ability to stake a fence.”' -
Well Read
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 24 August 2013; (p. 26)
— Review of Cairo 2013 single work novel ; The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt 2012 single work novel -
Chris Womersley's World of Mullets, Music and Coco Pops at the Black Cat
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 1 November 2013;
— Review of Cairo 2013 single work novel
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Beguiling Lives of Movers and Fakers
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 24-25 August 2013; (p. 20)
— Review of Cairo 2013 single work novel -
Art at the Heart of Well-Crafted Story
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 31 August - 1 September 2013; (p. 23) The Saturday Age , 31 August 2013; (p. 27) The Canberra Times , 31 August 2013; (p. 22)
— Review of Cairo 2013 single work novel 'A Pinch of Picasso and a bite of bohemian beauty combine in this compelling tale.' -
Brush with the Corrupt
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 31 August - 1 September 2013; (p. 20-21)
— Review of Cairo 2013 single work novel -
A Victimless Crime
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , September 2013;
— Review of Cairo 2013 single work novel -
Chris Womersley : Cairo
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , October 2013;
— Review of Cairo 2013 single work novel -
A Life Education
Martin Shaw
(interviewer),
2013
single work
interview
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , July vol. 93 no. 1 2013; (p. 30) 'In his new novel Cairo, Chris Womersley recreates Melbourne life in the 1980s. The author spoke to Martin Shaw.'