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'With quiet optimism and a haunting poignancy, the award-winning poet Anthony Lawrence's first novel explores the strange, sometimes marvelous, and entirely disorienting world of James Molloy. For however unexceptional James—an average student, a dutiful son—may appear to outsiders, he knows that he is different. He has visions, and in their eerie halflight two realities—the one that he lives in and the one that lives in him—collide, intermingle, coalesce. Sometimes out of the vibrant confusion inside his head come voices that glide from his mind into his mouth. Vision finds a language of its own. Alone, isolated by his difference, James faces a future without close companionship until the day that he meets Stephanie Riley, a sympathetic guide who leads him to unexpected truths, and then disappears. Driven to learn what lies at the center of his curious universe, James begins a heartrending journey that takes him from a tragic romantic interlude in rural Australia to the west coast of Ireland. There, even as he enters the emotionally turbulent world of Sarah Carmichael, a talented, hard-drinking fiddle player, James emerges into the clarity of self-awareness. And discovers at last the possibilities that lie in friendship, art, love, tomorrow.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Dedication: For my son Cormac
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Epigraph: In the pub that night, two men debate the Irish words for the wake of a boat on the ebb tide (Last Night's Fun, Ciaran Carson).
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Grand Delusion
2002
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review
— Appears in: The New York Times Book Review , 13 October vol. 107 no. 41 2002; (p. 24)
— Review of In the Half Light : A Novel 2000 single work novel -
Untitled
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 16 no. 1 2002; (p. 45-46)
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Paperbacks
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 20 October 2001; (p. 10)
— Review of In the Half Light : A Novel 2000 single work novel ; Yarn Spinners : A Story in Letters : Dymphna Cusack, Florence James, Miles Franklin 2001 anthology correspondence biography -
Untitled
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , June no. 23 2001; (p. 91-93)
— Review of In the Half Light : A Novel 2000 single work novel -
A Light on Life
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 20 January 2001; (p. 8)
— Review of In the Half Light : A Novel 2000 single work novel
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Difficult Terrain
2000-2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Spring/Summer no. 84 2000-2001; (p. 39-40)
— Review of In the Half Light : A Novel 2000 single work novel -
Poetic Prose
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January (2000-2001) no. 227 2000; (p. 50-51)
— Review of In the Half Light : A Novel 2000 single work novel -
Untitled
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , February vol. 6 no. 1 2001; (p. 24)
— Review of In the Half Light : A Novel 2000 single work novel -
Journey into a Different World
2000
single work
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11-12 November 2000; (p. 14)
— Review of In the Half Light : A Novel 2000 single work novel -
Personality Shift
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 9 December 2000; (p. 7)
— Review of In the Half Light : A Novel 2000 single work novel -
Life Taking Form in the Reality of Light
2000
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— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 12 November 2000; (p. 54) -
In Pursuit of the Lilac Flame
2000
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criticism
biography
— Appears in: The Age , 2 December 2000; (p. 7)
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