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1 Jack Stanton Reviews Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas Jack Stanton , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , December no. 24 2019;
— Review of Damascus Christos Tsiolkas , 2019 single work novel 'Damascus seems to be a departure for Christos Tsiolkas. The previous novels of the celebrated Melbourne writer mostly inhabit contemporary Australia and Europe. But that being said, Damascus, as the title suggests, travels back to the life of Saul of Tarsus, or Paul the Apostle, a wrathful persecutor of Christ’s early disciples in Jerusalem who was visited by a vision of Jesus on the road to Damascus. He seems to be playing a different tune from the modern day thematics of, say, Barracuda, his last novel-length offering, which was published in 2013 and told the story of Daniel Kelly, an Ian Thorpe-tier swimmer who crumbled under the immense pressure of national pride, a book that, on the surface, bore all the scars of a potboiler. Indeed I had felt reservations about the book until I read Julieanne Lamond’s essay “The Australian Face: Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas” in Sydney Review of Books.' (Introduction)
1 Don't Mention the Rest Jack Stanton , 2017 single work short story
— Appears in: Seizure [Online] , May 2017;
1 A Thousand Tiny Versions Of Myself || Nobody Is Ever Just One Thing Jack Stanton , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: Seizure [Online] , August 2016;
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