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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Creative Writing for Beginners : A Novel
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''He took up the book and opened the battered cover. It had swollen with age, humidity and use, the pages rippled together like seaweed in a current, like billowing grasses, as if the story it contained could not be bound by the glue and stitch of the spine...' Joel, a charming drifter, finds his moorings in the world of books. Attending a creative writing class, he strikes up an unlikely friendship which dredges up painful memories. Meanwhile his flatmate, a budding actress named Nomee, battles her own demons after being cast in a dream role. Will her fears, like those of her character, doom her to failure and regret? Creative Writing for Beginners is an absorbing novel exploring love, creativity and ego. Crafted with intelligence and poise, it also celebrates the redemptive power of fiction. ' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Neil Armfield, Carol Boas and Val Kent
  • Epigraph: 'What will survive of us is love.' -Philip Larkin, An Arundel Tomb

    'Art, to be sure, has its roots in the lives of human beings: the weakness, the strength, the absurdity.' -James Baldwin, The Cross of Redemption

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • South Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Affirm Press , 2013 .
      Extent: 239p.
      ISBN: 9781922213020 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

To Read or Not to Read... Jane Sullivan , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 4 January 2014; (p. 24)

— Review of Creative Writing for Beginners : A Novel Colin Batrouney , 2013 single work novel
Creative Writing for Beginners Elaine Fry , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 8 June (p. 21)

— Review of Creative Writing for Beginners : A Novel Colin Batrouney , 2013 single work novel
Creative Writing for Beginners Elaine Fry , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 8 June (p. 21)

— Review of Creative Writing for Beginners : A Novel Colin Batrouney , 2013 single work novel
Creative Writing for Beginners Elaine Fry , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 8 June (p. 21)

— Review of Creative Writing for Beginners : A Novel Colin Batrouney , 2013 single work novel
To Read or Not to Read... Jane Sullivan , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 4 January 2014; (p. 24)

— Review of Creative Writing for Beginners : A Novel Colin Batrouney , 2013 single work novel
Creative Writing for Beginners Elaine Fry , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 8 June (p. 21)

— Review of Creative Writing for Beginners : A Novel Colin Batrouney , 2013 single work novel
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