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Author's note: For those dum-dum boys who didn't quite make it. And the ones who did.
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Selected as one of the ABR Podcast's best books of 2022
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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- Large print.
- Dyslexic edition.
Works about this Work
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Another Melbourne
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 16 October vol. 33 no. 20 2023;
— Review of The Diplomat 2022 single work novel'Set in a Melbourne bursting with bohemian allure, Chris Womersley's The Diplomat is a book of despair and the agony of regret. Intertwining the worlds of art, drug addiction and deception, the author confronts us with the question: how well can we truly know another? '
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Best of 2022 in Australian Reading
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2023;
— Review of This All Come Back Now 2022 anthology short story ; Unlimited Futures 2022 anthology short story ; An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life 2022 selected work short story ; Women I Know 2022 selected work short story ; Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls 2022 selected work short story ; Everything Feels like the End of the World 2022 selected work short story ; The Burnished Sun 2022 selected work short story ; This Devastating Fever 2022 single work novel ; Losing Face 2022 single work novel ; Root and Branch : Essays on Inheritance 2022 selected work essay ; People Who Lunch : Essays on Work, Leisure and Loose Living 2022 selected work essay ; The Diplomat 2022 single work novel -
How a 12-Novel Epic Influenced Chris Womersley’s The Diplomat
2022
single work
column
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , August 2022; -
The Best New Books Released in July as Selected by Avid Readers and Critics
2022
single work
column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , August 2022; -
Noir and Nostalgia Inform Chris Womersley’s Tale of Forgery, Grief, and the Seamy Side of Urban Life
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 18 July 2022;
— Review of The Diplomat 2022 single work novel'Before prospective readers can get to the opening chapter of Chris Womersley’s new novel The Diplomat, they will find themselves assailed with several pages listing past awards received by the author and supplying a range of accolades cut and pasted from reviews of his earlier works.'
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Chris Womersley The Diplomat
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 2-8 July 2022;
— Review of The Diplomat 2022 single work novel'“Hopefully the worst was behind me: detox, collecting Gertrude’s ashes, London, the twenty-four-hour flight, aeroplane food, customs, sniffer dogs. All I had to do now was survive the rest of my life. Which was no small order, of course.”'
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‘My God. The World.’ A Coda to the Theft of Weeping Woman
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 444 2022; (p. 39)
— Review of The Diplomat 2022 single work novel'In Chris Womersley’s novel Cairo (2013), a middle-aged man looks back as his seventeen-year-old self is caught up in the notorious theft of Pablo Picasso’s Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria by a group of bohemian artists. The heist-Bildungsroman combination is energetic, and decades of distance give Tom Button’s narration a lush, nostalgic quality. His sifted memories of 1986 fall gently, landing somewhere between regret and sustained desire.' (Introduction)
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Dirty Realism
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 9 July 2022; (p. 17)
— Review of The Diplomat 2022 single work novel -
Noir and Nostalgia Inform Chris Womersley’s Tale of Forgery, Grief, and the Seamy Side of Urban Life
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 18 July 2022;
— Review of The Diplomat 2022 single work novel'Before prospective readers can get to the opening chapter of Chris Womersley’s new novel The Diplomat, they will find themselves assailed with several pages listing past awards received by the author and supplying a range of accolades cut and pasted from reviews of his earlier works.'
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Best of 2022 in Australian Reading
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2023;
— Review of This All Come Back Now 2022 anthology short story ; Unlimited Futures 2022 anthology short story ; An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life 2022 selected work short story ; Women I Know 2022 selected work short story ; Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls 2022 selected work short story ; Everything Feels like the End of the World 2022 selected work short story ; The Burnished Sun 2022 selected work short story ; This Devastating Fever 2022 single work novel ; Losing Face 2022 single work novel ; Root and Branch : Essays on Inheritance 2022 selected work essay ; People Who Lunch : Essays on Work, Leisure and Loose Living 2022 selected work essay ; The Diplomat 2022 single work novel -
The Best New Books Released in July as Selected by Avid Readers and Critics
2022
single work
column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , August 2022; -
How a 12-Novel Epic Influenced Chris Womersley’s The Diplomat
2022
single work
column
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , August 2022;
- Melbourne, Victoria,
- 1991