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y separately published work icon Rappaport's Revenge single work   novel   humour  
Issue Details: First known date: 1973... 1973 Rappaport's Revenge
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'In 'Rappaport's Revenge', his third novel and the sequel to 'Rappaport', Lurie transports Friedlander from Toorak to London, establishes him as a husband and father, as a non-painting artist who earns his bread by writing blurbs for unsellable books, and as a prisoner of foreign circumstances who longs for some kind of release through the lunatic company of his youth. He wants Rap.

When Rappaport arrives a new comedy of illusion and reality is sparked off, and a sensitive and sympathetic insight into the nature of human relationships is the result.'

Source:

Pettigrove, Malcolm. 'Ego and Alter Ego', Canberra Times, 15 September 1973, p.13.

Notes

  • Dedication: To Caroline, with love, and a coat of quite a few colours.

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    y separately published work icon Rappaport Compleat Morris Lurie , Melbourne : Hybrid , 2014 7963458 2014 selected work single work novel short story

    'This ebook brings together two of Lurie's novels, the comic "Rappaport", which focused on a day in the life of a young Melbourne antique dealer and his immature friend, Friedlander...' (Publication summary)

         Melbourne : Hybrid , 2014
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y separately published work icon Rappaport Morris Lurie , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1966 Z237604 1966 single work novel humour

'Why can't life be as simple as a Chippendale chair? For Rappaport, antique dealer, magazine fanatic, cake eater extraordinaire, it is anything but. A girl he hardly knows decides to marry him, his best friend Friedlander is giving up his prince of a job in advertising to paint some obscure Greek island, there's not a single Marx Brothers movie showing in the whole of Melbourne ... will Rappaport live through the day? If it wasn't so funny, it'd be desperate, but funny it is, though peeping round the edges of this one wild day in Rappaport's life is a penetrating picture of young people today.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (1977 Angus and Robertson edition)
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Untitled D. J. O'Hearn , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 176-177)
— Review of Rappaport's Revenge Morris Lurie , 1973 single work novel
Morris Lurie: The Humor of Survival D. J. O'Hearn , 1982 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Overland , October no. 89 1982; (p. 24-28)
Untitled D. J. O'Hearn , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 22 September 1973; (p. 13)
— Review of Rappaport's Revenge Morris Lurie , 1973 single work novel
Untitled A. Macdonald , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22 September 1973; (p. 21)
— Review of Rappaport's Revenge Morris Lurie , 1973 single work novel
The Torment and Despair of Humour John Hepworth , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: Nation Review , 27 July-2 August vol. 3 no. 41 1973; (p. 1283)
— Review of Rappaport's Revenge Morris Lurie , 1973 single work novel
The Torment and Despair of Humour John Hepworth , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: Nation Review , 27 July-2 August vol. 3 no. 41 1973; (p. 1283)
— Review of Rappaport's Revenge Morris Lurie , 1973 single work novel
Untitled A. Macdonald , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22 September 1973; (p. 21)
— Review of Rappaport's Revenge Morris Lurie , 1973 single work novel
Untitled D. J. O'Hearn , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 22 September 1973; (p. 13)
— Review of Rappaport's Revenge Morris Lurie , 1973 single work novel
Untitled D. J. O'Hearn , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 176-177)
— Review of Rappaport's Revenge Morris Lurie , 1973 single work novel
Morris Lurie: The Humor of Survival D. J. O'Hearn , 1982 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Overland , October no. 89 1982; (p. 24-28)
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