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    • Milsons Point, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Arrow Books , 1995 .
      Extent: 315p.

Works about this Work

The Beach as (Hu)man Limit in Gold Coast Narrative Fiction Kelly Palmer , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , June vol. 25 no. 1 2018; (p. 149-162)

'Gold Coast beaches oscillate in the cultural imagination between everyday reality and a tourist's paradise of ‘sun, surf and sex’ (Winchester and Everett 2000: 59). While these narratives of selfhood and becoming, egalitarianism and sexual liberation punctuate the media, Gold Coast literary fictions instead reveal the beach as a site of danger, wholly personifying the unknown. Within Amy Barker's Omega Park, Melissa Lucashenko's Steam Pigs, Georgia Savage's The House Tibet and Matthew Condon's Usher and A Night at the Pink Poodle, the beach is a ‘masculine’ space for testing the limit of the coastline and one's own capacity for survival. This article undertakes a close textual analysis of these novels and surveys other Gold Coast fictions alongside spatial analysis of the Gold Coast coastline. These fictions suggest that the Gold Coast is not simply a holiday world or ‘Crime Capital’ in the cultural imagination, but a mythic space with violent memories, opening out onto an infinite horizon of conflict and estrangement.'

Source: Abstract.

The Slash Pile Linda Jaivin , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Monthly , April no. 88 2013; (p. 47-49)
The Interview : Matthew Condon Phillip Edmonds (interviewer), 2009 single work interview
— Appears in: Wet Ink , March no. 14 2009; (p. 23-27)
[Review] A Night at the Pink Poodle Louise Toma , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: M/C Reviews , November 2007;

— Review of A Night at the Pink Poodle Matthew Condon , 1995 single work novel
Beating a Beach Retreat David Bentley , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 22 March 2003; (p. 6)
[Review] A Night at the Pink Poodle Louise Toma , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: M/C Reviews , November 2007;

— Review of A Night at the Pink Poodle Matthew Condon , 1995 single work novel
Under the Southern Cross Rosemary Sorensen , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 18 November 1995; (p. 8)

— Review of Free Fall Meredith Jelbart , 1995 single work novel ; A Night at the Pink Poodle Matthew Condon , 1995 single work novel ; The Underwharf Gaby Naher , 1995 single work novel
Icarus in Full Flight Catherine Armitage , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11-12 November 1995; (p. rev 8)

— Review of Free Fall Meredith Jelbart , 1995 single work novel ; A Night at the Pink Poodle Matthew Condon , 1995 single work novel
Belly Dancing and Whispers Jeff Apter , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , August vol. 75 no. 1061 1995; (p. 30)

— Review of A Night at the Pink Poodle Matthew Condon , 1995 single work novel
Myths Built Upon the Sand Neil Wiseman , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 14 October 1995; (p. wkd 9)

— Review of A Night at the Pink Poodle Matthew Condon , 1995 single work novel
Beating a Beach Retreat David Bentley , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 22 March 2003; (p. 6)
The Interview : Matthew Condon Phillip Edmonds (interviewer), 2009 single work interview
— Appears in: Wet Ink , March no. 14 2009; (p. 23-27)
The Slash Pile Linda Jaivin , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Monthly , April no. 88 2013; (p. 47-49)
Loose Novel Takes Top Award Terry O'Connor , 1996 single work column biography
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 5 September 1996; (p. 7)
[Untitled] [Australian Book Review, November 1995] Matthew Condon , 1995 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 176 1995; (p. 3)

Awards

1996 winner Warana Writers' Awards Steele Rudd Award
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