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Dedication: To my mother, and to the memory of my late father
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Works about this Work
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‘Everything Is Visible’ : Considering Laurie Clancy’s Perfect Love
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 4 2014;'By the time Laurie Clancy’s second novel Perfect Love was published in 1983, Clancy had established himself as an academic, critic, short story writer and novelist. Westerly had published his first short story ‘The Wife Specialist’ in 1971. A debut novel The Collapsible Man followed in 1975, to some critical acclaim. It was to share the National Book Council Award of that year. A collection of short stories under the title of his first published short story appeared in 1978. He was already working on his Reader’s Guide to Australian Fiction, though it took a decade to complete, being published in 1992. ' (Author's introduction)
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Laurie Clancy as Novelist of the Secular City
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 4 2014;'Laurie Clancy is very much a writer of the modern secular city. Although he was brought up in a Catholic household, he had left the Church well before he left school. The world he describes in his fiction is a post-modern world, where there is no God to offer comfort or authority to offer meaning. Clancy approaches this world from a realist perspective, but his realism breaks down as his characters find their efforts to make sense or to find fulfilment break down into fragmentary episodes of frustration or futility. Indeed he published many of these individual scenes as separate short stories. Even in the novels the narratives tend to collapse into series of fragments, rather than follow any kind of progression towards unity. These fragments record the frustrated attempts of his characters to create a unity in their experience, or to bend the outer world to their desires. Their constant failures produce an absurdity that ranges from the farcical to the tragic. ' (Author's introduction)
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Untitled
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 44-45)
— Review of Perfect Love : A Novel 1983 single work novel ; A Collapsible Man 1975 single work novel -
Staying in the Reserves
1985
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , April no. 98 1985; (p. 68-69)
— Review of Perfect Love : A Novel 1983 single work novel ; Bill's Break 1983 single work novel ; Uphill Runner 1984 selected work short story ; The Bellarmine Jug : A Novel 1984 single work novel -
Australian Convention and Catholic Dilemma
1983
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 31 December, 1983; (p. 11)
— Review of Perfect Love : A Novel 1983 single work novel
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A Family Chronicle Steeped in Realism
1983
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 24 September, 1983; (p. 16)
— Review of Perfect Love : A Novel 1983 single work novel -
Women's Dreary and Hard Lives
1983
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 5-6 November, 1983; (p. 19)
— Review of Perfect Love : A Novel 1983 single work novel -
It's No Good Being Glum : We Want Motivation
1983
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19 November, 1983; (p. 41)
— Review of Perfect Love : A Novel 1983 single work novel -
Australian Convention and Catholic Dilemma
1983
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 31 December, 1983; (p. 11)
— Review of Perfect Love : A Novel 1983 single work novel -
Staying in the Reserves
1985
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , April no. 98 1985; (p. 68-69)
— Review of Perfect Love : A Novel 1983 single work novel ; Bill's Break 1983 single work novel ; Uphill Runner 1984 selected work short story ; The Bellarmine Jug : A Novel 1984 single work novel -
Clancy of the Fiction Flow
1983
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 5 November, 1983; (p. 14) -
Laurie Clancy as Novelist of the Secular City
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 4 2014;'Laurie Clancy is very much a writer of the modern secular city. Although he was brought up in a Catholic household, he had left the Church well before he left school. The world he describes in his fiction is a post-modern world, where there is no God to offer comfort or authority to offer meaning. Clancy approaches this world from a realist perspective, but his realism breaks down as his characters find their efforts to make sense or to find fulfilment break down into fragmentary episodes of frustration or futility. Indeed he published many of these individual scenes as separate short stories. Even in the novels the narratives tend to collapse into series of fragments, rather than follow any kind of progression towards unity. These fragments record the frustrated attempts of his characters to create a unity in their experience, or to bend the outer world to their desires. Their constant failures produce an absurdity that ranges from the farcical to the tragic. ' (Author's introduction)
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‘Everything Is Visible’ : Considering Laurie Clancy’s Perfect Love
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 4 2014;'By the time Laurie Clancy’s second novel Perfect Love was published in 1983, Clancy had established himself as an academic, critic, short story writer and novelist. Westerly had published his first short story ‘The Wife Specialist’ in 1971. A debut novel The Collapsible Man followed in 1975, to some critical acclaim. It was to share the National Book Council Award of that year. A collection of short stories under the title of his first published short story appeared in 1978. He was already working on his Reader’s Guide to Australian Fiction, though it took a decade to complete, being published in 1992. ' (Author's introduction)
Awards
- 1983 winner FAW ANA Literature Award
- Bush,
- Gippsland, Victoria,
- Country towns,
- Urban,
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