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How far would you go to help a dying friend? This new novel, from the author of 'Honk If You Are Jesus', treads provocatively and wittily on shifting moral ground.
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No one writes about adult relationships as well as Peter Goldsworthy, who isn't afraid to look at their darker side: jealousy, revenge, deception, desperation... Goldsworthy dissects his characters with surgical sharpness while still managing to be witty and entertaining, and to ...
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It's 1964 and the little wine-producing town of Penola, in South Australia is about to have its complacency shattered. Robbie, the only child of the local cop, experiences a chemical mix between he and his new thoroughly modern English teacher, Miss Peach.
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From the pen of Peter Goldsworthy - a modern champion of the lost art of storytelling - comes Honk If You Are Jesus a bestselling novel that resists categorisation and explodes expectations. Keep your hand on the horn during this startling comic fiction.
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Number Three Friendly Street Poetry Reader.
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What makes us Australian? Fifty years ago the laconic bush worker was indisputably the typical Australian, and any child could have quoted at least the first verse of The Man from Snowy River. Now at the beginning of the 21st century, waves of immigration and a cosmopolitan urban ...
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Bennett jogs along the country bitumen an anxious man, his CRETE hat guarding against the magpie's deadly swoop. Who is he, where has Jasmine gone, why is he overwhelmed by a sense of doom? Pat-pat, pat-pat, pat-pat his dogged feet propel him inexorably into a comic nightmare.
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Winner, Nobel Prize for Literature 2003 She pouts. I was expecting more of a story, she says. It is difficult to get into the swing when the subject keeps changing. An ageing writer fills his journal: he has opinions about everything. He is challenged by Anya, the smart, irrevere ...
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The characters in these unsettling stories, of which there are six short and two long, want things that run counter to their sense of themselves. They're drawn outside their comfort zone into situations that are sometimes amusing, sometimes undignifying, never quite what they exp ...
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