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"Take your seats for the most unusual tennis tournament in the history of the world. Paris has gone crazy, flags and banners are everywhere. Every hotel is booked out. Queues at the stadium are huge, and the worldwide television audience is tipped to be in the billions." "Each nation is fielding its great names: the American team boasts Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Amelia Earhardt and many others, while British stars include PG Wodehouse, Enid Blyton and James Joyce. 'Supertom' Eliot is on sadly indifferent form, 'Because I did not serve too well. / Because I did not serve'. Groucho Marx confuses Heidegger - 'By the third set Marx was running around his backhand. By the fourth set he was running around his accountant. He was trying to get his accountant to run around his backhand when the match finished.' You've never seen anything like it." (Publication summary)
Contents
- Introduction, essay
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Introduction
2017
essay
— Appears in: The Tournament 2017; -
Classic Clarke Has Last Laugh
2017
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30 December 2017; (p. 18)
— Review of A Pleasure to Be Here : The Best of Clarke and Dawe 1989–2017 2017 selected work interview ; Tinkering : The Complete Book of John Clarke 2017 selected work poetry prose essay ; The Tournament 2002 single work novel'What an extraordinary fellow John Clarke was: a comedian who savoured poetry, a political satirist who didn’t do impersonations, a comic genius who was genial. When Clarke died in April, aged 68, while tracking down his beloved birds in the bush, it was apparent he was special to a great swag of people. He was special to people because he was special in himself.' (Introduction)
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The Crazy Games of John Clarke
2017
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , December 2017;
— Review of The Tournament 2002 single work novel'The Tournament is one of the oddest and funniest books ever published in Australia. It’s like Afferbeck Lauder’s Let’s Stalk Strine, or the poems of Ern Malley: we could never have predicted its existence, but it allows us to see and hear ourselves differently. John’s early drafts made it plain that he was doing much more than imagine the great minds of the century playing each other at tennis. That would have been peculiar enough, but it would also have been merely amusing, a charming gesture.' (Introduction)
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Wide World of Clarke
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 248 2003; (p. 38)
— Review of The Tournament 2002 single work novel -
Missing Links
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 28 January vol. 120 no. 6357 2003; (p. 76)
— Review of The Tournament 2002 single work novel
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Advantage Yeats
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21-22 December 2002; (p. 14)
— Review of The Tournament 2002 single work novel -
Mind Game
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 21 December 2002; (p. 8)
— Review of The Tournament 2002 single work novel -
Straight Aces Until the Semis
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 28-29 December 2002; (p. 8-9)
— Review of The Tournament 2002 single work novel -
The Short List
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Eureka Street , January-February vol. 13 no. 1 2003; (p. 36)
— Review of The Tournament 2002 single work novel ; Wild Politics : Feminism, Globalisation and Bio-Diversity 2002 single work criticism -
Missing Links
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 28 January vol. 120 no. 6357 2003; (p. 76)
— Review of The Tournament 2002 single work novel -
Keep Your Mind on the Ball...
2002
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 December 2002; (p. 13) -
Introduction
2017
essay
— Appears in: The Tournament 2017;
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