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Issue Details: First known date: 2000... 2000 The Office as a Boat : A Chronicle
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'The Office as a Boat is a playful and satirical portrayal of a close-knit group of women in an electronic office in drought-stricken Adelaide. It is a deadpan field study in the working culture of the office, with its gossip and missing items and the Mogadon Man whose ‘menstrual cycle’ is carefully charted. This is a shifting narrative that breaks down the dualities between fiction and fact.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Rose Bay, Sydney Eastern Harbourside, Sydney Eastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Brandl and Schlesinger , 2000 .
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Works about this Work

Untitled Jen Webb , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Redoubt , no. 29 2001; (p. 153-155)

— Review of The Office as a Boat : A Chronicle Moya Costello , 2000 single work novel
A Butterfly Nailed to the Page Alice Healy , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 163 2001; (p. 111-113)

— Review of The Office as a Boat : A Chronicle Moya Costello , 2000 single work novel ; Shore and Shelter Keith McLeod , 2000 single work novel ; Things You Get for Free Michael McGirr , 2000 single work autobiography ; Playing Madame Mao Lau Siew Mei , 2000 single work novel
Treading Lightly in the Office Katharine England , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 23 December 2000; (p. 17)

— Review of The Office as a Boat : A Chronicle Moya Costello , 2000 single work novel
Untitled Donna Lee Brien , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , vol. 12 no. 3 2000; (p. 128-130)

— Review of The Office as a Boat : A Chronicle Moya Costello , 2000 single work novel
A Sound but Laboured Premise Veronica Sen , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 29 July 2000; (p. 18)

— Review of The Office as a Boat : A Chronicle Moya Costello , 2000 single work novel
All at Sea John Jenkins , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 221 2000; (p. 31-32)

— Review of The Office as a Boat : A Chronicle Moya Costello , 2000 single work novel
Paperbacks Debra Adelaide , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29 July 2000; (p. 10)

— Review of The Office as a Boat : A Chronicle Moya Costello , 2000 single work novel ; The Simple Gift Steven Herrick , 2000 single work novel
A Sound but Laboured Premise Veronica Sen , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 29 July 2000; (p. 18)

— Review of The Office as a Boat : A Chronicle Moya Costello , 2000 single work novel
Untitled Donna Lee Brien , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , vol. 12 no. 3 2000; (p. 128-130)

— Review of The Office as a Boat : A Chronicle Moya Costello , 2000 single work novel
Treading Lightly in the Office Katharine England , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 23 December 2000; (p. 17)

— Review of The Office as a Boat : A Chronicle Moya Costello , 2000 single work novel
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