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'"The phone rings. It's Jesus. I listen to him speak and then hang up..."'
'In this darkly comic, slow-burn thriller, reality is blurred... nothing can be taken for granted.
'A gripping and poignant black comedy about love, friendship, booze, morality, death... and a generation's casual dissatisfaction with modern life. Sometimes, redemption lies in the darkest of places.
'"You don't need to die to destroy yourself."'
'Killing Richard Dawson is a brilliant fast-paced story with a shocking twist. The reader is sucked into the uni student narrator's inner and outer worlds as he navigates his way, with wit and humour, through the minefields of loss, friendship and unrequited love. Death is the only constant in his life, yet Robin Baker deals with it with an irreverence echoing Evelyn Waugh's classic satire.' (From the publisher's website.)
Notes
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Dedication: For Lilian Little
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Epigraph:
"One faces the future with one's past." -Paul S. Buck
"Friendship often ends in love;
but love in friendship - never." - Charles Caleb Colton
"I am scared that nothing is real." - Jostein Gaarder
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also dyslexic edition
- Also braille.
- Also large print.
Works about this Work
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Men on the Mat
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , August vol. 5 no. 7 2010; (p. 18)
— Review of Killing Richard Dawson 2010 single work novel ; Glissando : A Melodrama 2010 single work novel ; The Norseman's Song 2010 single work novel ; Rocks in the Belly 2010 single work novel -
Grave Take on Satire
2010
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 13 June 2010; (p. 10-11) -
Death Becomes Them: Macabre Take on Gen Y
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5-6 June 2010; (p. 20-21)
— Review of Killing Richard Dawson 2010 single work novel -
Black Comedy Is Hard on Gen Y
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29-30 May 2010; (p. 33)
— Review of Killing Richard Dawson 2010 single work novel -
Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , April vol. 89 no. 7 2010; (p. 36)
— Review of Killing Richard Dawson 2010 single work novel
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Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , April vol. 89 no. 7 2010; (p. 36)
— Review of Killing Richard Dawson 2010 single work novel -
Black Comedy Is Hard on Gen Y
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29-30 May 2010; (p. 33)
— Review of Killing Richard Dawson 2010 single work novel -
Death Becomes Them: Macabre Take on Gen Y
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5-6 June 2010; (p. 20-21)
— Review of Killing Richard Dawson 2010 single work novel -
Men on the Mat
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , August vol. 5 no. 7 2010; (p. 18)
— Review of Killing Richard Dawson 2010 single work novel ; Glissando : A Melodrama 2010 single work novel ; The Norseman's Song 2010 single work novel ; Rocks in the Belly 2010 single work novel -
Grave Take on Satire
2010
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 13 June 2010; (p. 10-11)