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Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 The Hoax
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' Dr Julius Newton is a world-famous biographer who specialises in the lives of composers. His latest project is on the famously secretive French composer Maurice Ravel, and he is thrilled when a young man, Charles Joseph Pym, contacts him to tell him that he has discovered some exciting material relating to Ravel's life: a letter, a photo, and a new, wonderful sonata, Le Gouffre, or The Abyss, which will revolutionise the public view of Ravel the man as well as the composer. But all is not as it seems--and in a novel which twists and turns on itself, friend soon turns foe: bluff and double bluff succeed each other--just who is hoaxing who?' (Sophie Masson).

Notes

  • Epigraph: He is awkward and weak now, who once ruled the air!Comically ugly, yet once past compare! Tormented with fire by one in the crew, While another mimes, limping, he who once flew! L'Albatros, Charles Baudelaire. Translation by Sophie Masson.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Milsons Point, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Minerva , 1997 .
      Extent: 256p.
      Note/s:
      • A Minerva Book published by Random House Australia (Verso)
      • Includes bibliography.
      ISBN: 1863305424

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

Musical Mystery Delights Cleo Lloyd da Silva , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 12 no. 1 1998; (p. 51-52)

— Review of The Hoax Sophie Masson , 1997 single work novel
Purloined Letters Tanya Dalziell , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , Spring vol. 9 no. 2-3 1997; (p. 32-33)

— Review of The Hoax Sophie Masson , 1997 single work novel
Ravelled Fortunes Clement Semmler , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , November vol. 41 no. 11 1997; (p. 84-85)

— Review of The Hoax Sophie Masson , 1997 single work novel
A Musical Hoax David Brooks , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 194 1997; (p. 32)

— Review of The Hoax Sophie Masson , 1997 single work novel
Satire of a Winner Katharine England , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 27 September 1997; (p. 15)

— Review of The Hoax Sophie Masson , 1997 single work novel ; The Blindman's Hat Bernard Cohen , 1997 single work novel
Fiction Without Psychology Terry O'Connor , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 23 August 1997; (p. wkd 9)

— Review of The Hoax Sophie Masson , 1997 single work novel
Satire Bounces Back Rosser Street , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30-31 August 1997; (p. rev 7)

— Review of The Hoax Sophie Masson , 1997 single work novel ; The Blindman's Hat Bernard Cohen , 1997 single work novel
Whose Lie is It Anyway? Anna Maria Dell'Oso , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6 September 1997; (p. 10s)

— Review of The Hoax Sophie Masson , 1997 single work novel
Satire of a Winner Katharine England , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 27 September 1997; (p. 15)

— Review of The Hoax Sophie Masson , 1997 single work novel ; The Blindman's Hat Bernard Cohen , 1997 single work novel
A Musical Hoax David Brooks , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 194 1997; (p. 32)

— Review of The Hoax Sophie Masson , 1997 single work novel
Hoax Just a Coincidence Sophie Masson , 1997 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 29 August 1997; (p. 17)
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