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Dorian Mode Dorian Mode i(A64092 works by)
Born: Established: 1966 ;
Gender: Male
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1 Feedem Fighters Dorian Mode , 2011 single work drama humour Daryl Lucas is a fat, happily married soft-drink salesman living on the NSW Central Coast until the day he walks in on his cheating cougar wife and her young Pilates Instructor. While he plots to divorce her, she arranges for Daryl to be kidnapped by a group of disparate lunatics calling themselves Feedem Fighters. Inspired by shows like Extreme Makeover and The Biggest Loser, these calorie terrorists kidnap fatties and keep them captive in a soundproof room for three months, forcing them to lose weight. Can Daryl convince them he's only being held so his wife can drain his accounts and run off with her Pilates instructor? You'll laugh so much you'll lose two kilos!(publicity blurb)
1 Comedy, a Craft Dorian Mode , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: Newswrite : The NSW Writers' Centre Magazine , February/March no. 183 2009; (p. 8)
1 Flathead Variations Dorian Mode , 2004 single work short story
— Appears in: The Big Issue Australia , 27 December 2004 - 18 January 2005 no. 219 2004; (p. 36-39)
1 On My Bedside Table : Dorian Mode Dorian Mode , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 11 September 2004; (p. 6)
1 3 y separately published work icon The Mozart Maulers Dorian Mode , Camberwell : Penguin , 2004 Z1109704 2004 single work autobiography humour
1 Breathless Dorian Mode , 2003 single work short story
— Appears in: Heatwave : Penguin Australian Summer Stories 5 2003; (p. 182-194)
1 The Final Diaries of Herman Garfield Dorian Mode , 2002 single work short story
— Appears in: Big Night Out 2002; (p. 415-433)
2 7 y separately published work icon A Cafe in Venice Dorian Mode , Ringwood : Penguin , 2001 Z913226 2001 single work novel

'Quirky and neurotic, Gordon B. Shoesmith is a 30-something jazz musician seeing his twelfth psychiatrist in as many years. He increasingly discovers that there is a conflict between his artist's idealism and the hard reality of Life, fuelled by his ambitious journalist girlfriend, Jenny, and her disapproving parents. Gordon finds himself on an improvised, medicated roller-coaster ride of self-discovery that drags him from cockroach-infested, inner-city anonymity to mercurial artistic success, to the cynical world of advertising. He's finally tossed onto the road that leads to a cafe, run by Joe, a middle-aged, Palestinian Elvis impersonator, in the desert town of Venice, South Australia. A Cafe in Venice is a surreal, comic insight into the personal fulfilment we aspire to a mad, intransigent world.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
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