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y separately published work icon Perfect Skin single work   novel  
Issue Details: First known date: 2000... 2000 Perfect Skin
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In this sequel to the bestselling Bachelor Kisses, Jon Marshall has come a long way since his bachelor days.

In a post-Duran Duran world, Jon is a laser-wielding skin specialist who drives a BMW, owns his own home, and falls prey to the vicissitudes of e-mail dating. But life hasn't taken the path he guessed it would back in his twenties, and he now faces up to being the lone parent of a baby girl, the Bean. Throw in a new running buddy--a woman with an accident-prone cat--and watch Jon's world spiral out of control. (Source: Trove)

Adaptations

y separately published work icon Perfect Skin Janis Balodis , 2006 Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2006 Z1232450 2006 single work drama
form y separately published work icon Solo un Padre Perfect Skin Giulia Calenda , Maddalena Ravagli , ( dir. Luca Lucini ) Italy United States of America (USA) : Cattleya Warner Brothers , 2008 Z1691801 2008 single work film/TV

Carlo is a thirty-year-old dermatologist who owns a nice house and a sports car, and has a ten-month-old baby girl, Sofia, whom he adores. The void left in his life caused by the premature loss of his young wife, who died giving birth to Sofia, is filled by the love and attention that his friends and family provide him with: always there by his side, relentlessly ready to help him out with the toddler. Everything is normal, almost commonplace. Until his bubble-like life, organised in a reassuring routine, is shaken by the arrival of Camille ...

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Solid Gold : Bachelor Kisses, Perfect Skin Nick Earls , Ringwood : Viking , 2000 Z793802 2000 selected work novel Ringwood : Viking , 2000
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2000 .
      Extent: 354p.
      Description: port.
      Reprinted: 2001
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Macmillan ,       2001 .
      Extent: 353p.
      ISBN: 0333901665
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Pan ,       2002 .
      Extent: 353p.
      ISBN: 0330481207
Alternative title: Le avventure semiserie di un ragazzo padre
Language: Italian
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Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.
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Related Works

y separately published work icon Bachelor Kisses Nick Earls , Ringwood : Penguin , 1998 Z193029 1998 single work novel humour

'Jon, Rick and Jen are in their mid-twenties and share a house in Brisbane. Together they share food rituals, sporadic cocktail nights and the quest for love. Rick seems destined to long, lonely nights beneath his Porky Pig doona. Jen consumes men like chocolate bars. And Jon gets lucky in a way he's never expected - more women than he knows how to handle. A young doctor with grand plans for the hormone of darkness, he finds his life is spiralling way out of control.
'Bachelor Kisses is the mess Jon Marshall makes of his life when it stops making sense. It's the story of one man's hilarious search for meaning: a chaotic comedy of misjudgements, misinformation and misguided intimacy.' (Publication summary)
Breaking the Ice (from Perfect Skin) Nick Earls , 2000 extract novel humour (Perfect Skin)
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 26 December 2000; (p. 30)
There's a Baby in the House and a Single Dad Who is More at Home with Pizza Cartons than a Nappy Wash (from Perfect Skin) Nick Earls , 2000 extract novel (Perfect Skin)
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 25 March 2000; (p. 4)
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Works about this Work

Nick Earls Papers Nick Earls , 2010 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Found in Fryer : Stories from the Fryer Library Collection 2010; (p. 196-197)
The Forum : Nick Earls on Foreign Editions Nick Earls , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13-14 September 2008; (p. 2)
Adapting Australian Novels for the Stage : La Boite Theatre's Version of Last Drinks, Perfect Skin, and Johnno Joanne Tompkins , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 23 no. 3 2008; (p. 305-317)
A New High for Nick Earls Vineta O'Malley , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Dotlit : The Online Journal of Creative Writing , August vol. 4 no. 1 2003;
— Review of Perfect Skin Nick Earls , 2000 single work novel
Golden Gags Alison Burrows , 2000 single work review
— Review of Solid Gold : Bachelor Kisses, Perfect Skin Nick Earls , 2000 selected work novel ; Bachelor Kisses Nick Earls , 1998 single work novel ; Perfect Skin Nick Earls , 2000 single work novel
A New High for Nick Earls Vineta O'Malley , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Dotlit : The Online Journal of Creative Writing , August vol. 4 no. 1 2003;
— Review of Perfect Skin Nick Earls , 2000 single work novel
Trendy Happy Dermatology Michael Sharkey , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 March 2000; (p. 11)
— Review of Perfect Skin Nick Earls , 2000 single work novel
Untitled Sally Blakeney , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , April vol. 5 no. 3 2000; (p. 24)
— Review of Perfect Skin Nick Earls , 2000 single work novel
Perfect Satire Katharine England , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 22 April 2000; (p. 17)
— Review of Perfect Skin Nick Earls , 2000 single work novel
Pop Songs Defineth the Consumer-Age Man Louis Nowra , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6 May 2000; (p. 8)
— Review of Perfect Skin Nick Earls , 2000 single work novel ; The Beauty of Truth Bruno Bouchet , 1999 single work novel
Adapting Australian Novels for the Stage : La Boite Theatre's Version of Last Drinks, Perfect Skin, and Johnno Joanne Tompkins , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 23 no. 3 2008; (p. 305-317)
The Forum : Nick Earls on Foreign Editions Nick Earls , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13-14 September 2008; (p. 2)
Nick Earls Papers Nick Earls , 2010 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Found in Fryer : Stories from the Fryer Library Collection 2010; (p. 196-197)
The Joys of Being a Dad Judy Sands , 2000 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 25 March 2000; (p. 4)
The Trials of a Single Father Christopher Bantick , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Canberra Times Sunday Times , 2 April 2000; (p. 22)
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Awards

2003 shortlisted One Book One Brisbane
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Subjects:
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  • Brisbane, Queensland,
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