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'An anxious sighting marks the reappearance of high-school friend Jason Bunt in Mike Planner's ordered life as a courtroom sound-recordist. Mike is a cool obsessive - an avid spectator of criminal trials and a connoisseur of restrooms, both public and domestic. A lighthouse-related disaster in Year Ten has left him with a debt to Jason. Jason has meanwhile taken up tennis with evangelical zeal, and Mike seizes on this in an ill-advised attempt to wipe the slate clean. Further complications arise when Mike's Bible-reading co-worker Fiona introduces him to the Old Testament, and he grapples with questions of guilt, redemption, the Patriarch Abraham, and former Wimbledon champion Pete Sampras... a novel about the impossibility of avoiding sport. - (back cover)
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Dedication: For Ruth and Gerald Cohen
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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 -
A Short Tour Through the Independents
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 191 2008; (p. 85-87)
— Review of Fear of Tennis 2007 single work novel ; Personal Taxidermy 2007 single work novel ; Cock : Adventures in Masculinity 2006 anthology short story ; The Sleepers Almanac No. 4 2008 anthology short story poetry ; The Ascension of Phoebus Klein 2008 single work novel -
Untitled
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 299 2008; (p. 22)
— Review of Fear of Tennis 2007 single work novel -
Off the Shelf : Parody
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 29 September 2007; (p. 28)
— Review of Fear of Tennis 2007 single work novel
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Off the Shelf : Parody
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 29 September 2007; (p. 28)
— Review of Fear of Tennis 2007 single work novel -
Untitled
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 299 2008; (p. 22)
— Review of Fear of Tennis 2007 single work novel -
A Short Tour Through the Independents
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 191 2008; (p. 85-87)
— Review of Fear of Tennis 2007 single work novel ; Personal Taxidermy 2007 single work novel ; Cock : Adventures in Masculinity 2006 anthology short story ; The Sleepers Almanac No. 4 2008 anthology short story poetry ; The Ascension of Phoebus Klein 2008 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
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