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'A lonely junkmailer, his bag full of real estate leaflets, wanders the streets of a sleeping subtropical city. With adventure in his heart, his search for letterboxes takes on epic proportions throughout the night as dream and reality collide. Accompanied by a host of bizarre companions - a girl who has forgotten how to cry, a Polish-Aboriginal clairvoyant, a mysterious ringmaster, and a tribe of watchful white tigers - the junkmailer is led on a quixotic journey through the night-time streets of a city desperately in need of redemption. Why the city needs to be saved is another question entirely.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Epigraph: We made our way along that lonely plain/ like men who seek the right path they have lost,/ counting each step a loss till it is found. Dante, Purgatory
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Epigraph: In holy music's golden speech/ Remotest notes to notes respond:/ Each octave is a world; yet each/ Vibrates to worlds its own beyond... Aubrey Thomas De Vere, 'Implicit Faith'
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Dedication: For Ina Wallace, whose drowning is now painless and a term of a city's poem; who no longer belongs to the ten years before the 22nd of November 1899, and so is wiser than this book that tries to recall her; whose forgiveness I ask.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Patrick Holland in Conversation with N A Bourke
N. A. Bourke
(interviewer),
2010
single work
interview
— Appears in: Perilous Adventures , vol. 10 no. 3 2010; -
Special Delivery
2006
single work
column
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 11-17 October no. 608 2006; (p. 31) -
Long Road of the Junkmailer
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 14 no. 4 2006; (p. 46)
— Review of The Long Road of the Junkmailer 2006 single work novel -
Magical Story of Brisbane
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 16 - 17 September 2006; (p. 23)
— Review of The Long Road of the Junkmailer 2006 single work novel -
Dispatches from the Reviewing Front ...
2006
single work
column
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , October vol. 1 no. 2 2006; (p. 22) Matchett comments on reviews of the three books listed here as subjects.
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Untitled
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , August vol. 86 no. 2 2006; (p. 34)
— Review of The Long Road of the Junkmailer 2006 single work novel -
Fiction
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 2 September 2006; (p. 25)
— Review of The Long Road of the Junkmailer 2006 single work novel -
When It's Down to Sex, Literary Lovers Come Good
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , September vol. 1 no. 1 2006; (p. 11)
— Review of Listen 2006 single work novel ; Metro 2006 single work novel ; Silent Parts 2006 single work novel ; The Long Road of the Junkmailer 2006 single work novel -
In Short : fiction
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 7-8 October 2006; (p. 34)
— Review of The Travel Writer 2006 single work novel ; The Long Road of the Junkmailer 2006 single work novel -
Magical Story of Brisbane
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 16 - 17 September 2006; (p. 23)
— Review of The Long Road of the Junkmailer 2006 single work novel -
Dispatches from the Reviewing Front ...
2006
single work
column
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , October vol. 1 no. 2 2006; (p. 22) Matchett comments on reviews of the three books listed here as subjects. -
Special Delivery
2006
single work
column
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 11-17 October no. 608 2006; (p. 31) -
Patrick Holland in Conversation with N A Bourke
N. A. Bourke
(interviewer),
2010
single work
interview
— Appears in: Perilous Adventures , vol. 10 no. 3 2010;
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