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y separately published work icon Rappaport single work   novel   humour  
Issue Details: First known date: 1966... 1966 Rappaport
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'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)

Notes

  • Dedication: For my brother Norman, this ultimate chutzpah.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Hodder and Stoughton ,
      1966 .
      image of person or book cover 3973088716682739259.jpg
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      Extent: 207p.
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      William Morrow ,
      1967 .
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      Extent: 223p.
  • Appears in:
    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

Works about this Work

Recent Paperbacks John McLaren , 1969 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 41 1969; (p. 45-46)

— Review of Rappaport Morris Lurie , 1966 single work novel ; The Heart Is Where the Hurt Is Harry Marks , 1966 single work novel
The Australian Novel Thomas Keneally , 1968 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 3 February 1968; (p. 22) Opinion , vol. 12 no. 3 1968; (p. 52-55)
Mod but Not Mad Rodney Hall , 1967 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 15 April 1967; (p. 9)

— Review of Rappaport Morris Lurie , 1966 single work novel
Untitled Robert Ward , 1967 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March vol. 6 no. 5 1967; (p. 69)

— Review of Dark Stranger John Iggulden , 1965 single work novel ; Rappaport Morris Lurie , 1966 single work novel ; Contillo : A Novel Ray Aitchison , 1966 single work novel
Mod but Not Mad Rodney Hall , 1967 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 15 April 1967; (p. 9)

— Review of Rappaport Morris Lurie , 1966 single work novel
Untitled Robert Ward , 1967 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March vol. 6 no. 5 1967; (p. 69)

— Review of Dark Stranger John Iggulden , 1965 single work novel ; Rappaport Morris Lurie , 1966 single work novel ; Contillo : A Novel Ray Aitchison , 1966 single work novel
Recent Paperbacks John McLaren , 1969 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 41 1969; (p. 45-46)

— Review of Rappaport Morris Lurie , 1966 single work novel ; The Heart Is Where the Hurt Is Harry Marks , 1966 single work novel
The Australian Novel Thomas Keneally , 1968 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 3 February 1968; (p. 22) Opinion , vol. 12 no. 3 1968; (p. 52-55)
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