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'The New Punk is not about moving towards the future. It is about your life right now, impatiently standing still.
Fact: Bad people do bad things.
In the new age of money, drugs and instant satisfaction, you make your own rules. You take what you want, you don't ask. There is no responsibility. There is no guilt. If someone burns you, you should do the same to them. It's an issue of equality.'
Hutchinson 'portrays a disturbing reality in which cold and disillusioned youths assault the comfortable middle-class world around them'. Rohypnol 'examines the mind of a self-made monster - and questions the direction of modern life.' (Publisher's blurb)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Untitled
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 22 no. 1 2008; (p. 58-59)
— Review of Rohypnol 2006 single work novel -
Untitled
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Wet Ink , Summer no. 13 2008; (p. 71)
— Review of Rohypnol 2006 single work novel -
The Year's Work in Fiction : 2007-2008
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 53 no. 2008; (p. 50-58)
— Review of From : The Time We Have Taken 2007 extract novel ; Prime Cuts 2008 selected work short story ; The Best Australian Stories 2007 2007 anthology short story extract autobiography ; The Trout Opera 2007 single work novel ; Fear of Tennis 2007 single work novel ; The Complete Stories 2007 selected work short story ; Redfin 2007 selected work short story ; Rohypnol 2006 single work novel ; Breath 2008 single work novel ; The Last Sky 2008 single work novel ; Landscape of Farewell 2007 single work novel ; A History of the Beanbag : And Other Stories 2007 selected work short story ; Dead Birds 2007 single work novel ; Secrets of the Sea 2007 single work novel ; Other Country 2007 single work novel ; The Low Road 2007 single work novel ; Lilia's Secret 2007 single work novel -
In Brief : Fiction
2007-2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January no. 297 2007-2008; (p. 35)
— Review of Rohypnol 2006 single work novel -
The Secret World of Lies
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , December vol. 2 no. 12 2007; (p. 20-21)
— Review of The Anatomy of Wings 2006 single work novel ; Lilia's Secret 2007 single work novel ; Rohypnol 2006 single work novel ; The Zookeeper's War 2007 single work novel
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Tenuous Tale of Teenage Rapists Wallows in Gore and Gutter Language
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18-19 August 2007; (p. 10-11)
— Review of Rohypnol 2006 single work novel -
Sex, Drugs and Rohypnol
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18-19 August 2007; (p. 32-33)
— Review of Rohypnol 2006 single work novel -
In the Zone
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 25 September vol. 125 no. 6588 2007; (p. 93)
— Review of Other Country 2007 single work novel ; Rohypnol 2006 single work novel ; The River Baptists 2006 single work novel -
This Week's Selections
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 29 September 2007; (p. 12)
— Review of Rohypnol 2006 single work novel -
Specialty Offerings Sate Hunger for Meaty Reads
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 13 October 2007; (p. 14)
— Review of Rohypnol 2006 single work novel -
Violence Is Golden
2007
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column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4-5 August 2007; (p. 30-31) -
The Face : Andrew Hutchinson : Novelist
2007
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biography
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 20-21 October 2007; (p. 3) -
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(Re-)Examining Blank Fiction : Sex, Narcissism and Disconnection in Australia and the United States
Melbourne
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1990
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1990
single work
thesis
'(Re-)Examining Blank Fiction: Sex, Narcissism and Disconnection in Australia and the United States analyses works of ‘Blank Fiction’ from Australia and the United States within a selection of novels, including: Less Than Zero (1985) by Bret Easton Ellis, Loaded (1995) by Christos Tsiolkas, Rohypnol (2007) by Andrew Hutchinson, The Delivery Man (2008) by Joe McGinniss Jr., and Snake Bite (2014) by Christie Thompson. It examines the use of images drawn from celebrity and lifestyle magazines, music videos, advertising, pornography, television, and Hollywood cinema and argues that these novels co-opt images of mass culture in an effort to critique contemporary social practices, values, and lifestyle. Additionally, this dissertation provides an excerpt of a novel entitled Barely Anything. Barely Anything, like other Blank Fiction novels, details the social practices of a small group of young adults, addressing themes of sex, boredom and privilege on both sides of Melbourne’s Yarra River.'
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