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Is part of Dog Rock Trilogy David Foster , 1985 series - author (number 1 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 1985... 1985 Dog Rock : A Postal Pastoral
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'Arcy D'Oliveres, an Assistant Postal Officer, is convinced that Dog Rock, a small Australian town, is sheltering a dangerous killer.'  (Publication summary)

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  • Available as a sound recording and in large print format.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1985 .
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      Extent: 166p.
      ISBN: 0140076522
    • Milsons Point, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Vintage Australia , 1996 .
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      Extent: 299p.
      ISBN: 0091832365
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Works about this Work

The Life and Opinions of D’Arcy D’Oliveres, Letter’d Gentleman James Ley , 2013 single work biography
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 134 2013; (p. 65-70) 'Providing a detailed account of the early, and indeed the late, life of D'Arcy D'Oliveres - author, apiarist, amateur sleuth, alleged amputee, larrikin aristocrat, renaissance postman - presents the prospective biographer with a number of problems. For it is not only the case that the readily available details of D'Oliveres's life are incomplete, sketchy and, at times, contradictory: the primary source of information about his background and his exploits is D'Oliveres himself. And he is an idiosyncratic character, to say the least. His opinions are unusual in many respects. His autobiographical writings - such as they are - are by no means comprehensive and contain much that is questionable, if not deeply implausible. A genial sort of bloke, he is always willing to give visitors guided tours of the small town of Dog Rock - 'a trivial town, where nothing ever happens which is not essentially trivial' - where he spent many years in the employ of Australia Post. It must be said, however, that he is not always the most reliable of guides. For a period in the 1980s, he tried (unsuccessfully) to maintain the fiction among his fellow Dog Rockers that one of his arms had been amputated above the elbow. And when, in late-1996, rumours began to circulate that D'Oliveres, who is known to be partial to a smoke, had succumbed to cancer in the small town of Obliqua Creek in Far Eastern Gippsland, the rumours were not only greatly exaggerated; it turned out he started them.' (Publication abstract)
A Thousan' Miles from Nowhere: Plumbum and Dog Rock Susan Lever , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: David Foster : The Satirist of Australia 2008; (p. 87-111)
Creating One's Hometown David Foster , 1999 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Studs and Nogs : Essays 1987-98 1999; (p. 1-18)
Postman's Knock : Is David Foster a Clever Dick--Or What? Marilla North , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 56 no. 3-4 1997; (p. 686-696)
Boundary Crossing: The Novels of David Foster Narelle Shaw , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 16 no. 1 1993; (p. 38-49)
Characters Fantastic Populate Home-Grown Trilogy Inez Baranay , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 January 1985; (p. 36)
— Review of Social Death : An Entertainment in Three Months Renate Yates , 1984 single work novel ; The Crookes of Epping Barry Dickins , 1984 single work novel ; Dog Rock : A Postal Pastoral David Foster , 1985 single work novel
A Lethal Spider Under Dog Rock Geoffrey Dutton , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 26 February vol. 107 no. 5456 1985; (p. 84-85)
— Review of Dog Rock : A Postal Pastoral David Foster , 1985 single work novel
Community Notices Kerryn Goldsworthy , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 71 1985; (p. 20)
— Review of Dog Rock : A Postal Pastoral David Foster , 1985 single work novel
Monologue of a Postman a Comic Collage Helen Daniel , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 26 January 1985; (p. 12)
— Review of Dog Rock : A Postal Pastoral David Foster , 1985 single work novel
Promise Undelivered Veronica Sen , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 9 March 1985; (p. 20)
— Review of Dog Rock : A Postal Pastoral David Foster , 1985 single work novel
Bare-Breech'd Brethren : The Novels of David Foster A. P. Riemer , 1987 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , June vol. 47 no. 2 1987; (p. 126-144)
Postman's Knock : Is David Foster a Clever Dick--Or What? Marilla North , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 56 no. 3-4 1997; (p. 686-696)
A Thousan' Miles from Nowhere: Plumbum and Dog Rock Susan Lever , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: David Foster : The Satirist of Australia 2008; (p. 87-111)
Surpassing Lunacy : The Novels of David Foster Susan McKernan , 1985 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Age Monthly Review , April vol. 4 no. 11 1985; (p. 3-4)
David Foster Candida Baker (interviewer), 1986 single work biography interview
— Appears in: Yacker : Australian Writers Talk About Their Work 1986; (p. 104-126)
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