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'Gabriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent, is thinking terminal. His philosophical enquiries, the abstractions he indulges, and how these relate to a life lived, all point in the same direction. His destination is Wonderland. The nature and style of the journey is all that's to be decided.
Taking in London, Tokyo, Berlin and the Galapagos Islands, Lights Out In Wonderland documents Gabriel Brockwell's remarkable global odyssey. Committed to the pursuit of pleasure and in search of the Bacchanal to obliterate all previous parties, Gabriel's adventure takes in a spell in rehab, a near-death experience with fugu ovaries, a sexual encounter with an octopus, and finally an orgiastic feast in the bowels of Berlin's majestic Tempelhof Airport.
Along the way we see a character disintegrate and re-shape before our eyes. Lights Out In Wonderland carries you through its many corridors of delight and horror on the back of Gabriel's voice, which is at once skeptical, idealistic, broken and optimistic. An allegorical banquet and a sly commentary on these End Times and the march towards insensate banality, DBC Pierre's third novel completes a loose trilogy of fictions, each of which stands alone as a joyful expression of the human spirit.(Publisher website)
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2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Publishers Weekly , 9 May vol. 258 no. 19 2011; (p. 30)
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Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Library Journal , 15 June vol. 136 no. 11 2011; (p. 80)
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Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Kirkus Reviews , 15 May vol. 79 no. 10 2011; (p. 815)
— Review of Lights Out in Wonderland 2010 single work novel -
Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Booklist , August vol. 107 no. 22 2011; (p. 22)
— Review of Lights Out in Wonderland 2010 single work novel -
Brit Wit
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Chatelaine , November 2010; (p. 184)
— Review of Lights Out in Wonderland 2010 single work novel
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Gabriel Takes a Trip through the Looking Glass into Limboland
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 28 August 2010; (p. 21)
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Cliches Clutter the Menu
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4-5 September 2010; (p. 38)
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What a Swell Party This Is
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , September vol. 5 no. 8 2010; (p. 16)
— Review of Lights Out in Wonderland 2010 single work novel -
Books
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 4 September 2010; (p. 21)
— Review of Lights Out in Wonderland 2010 single work novel ; The Vintage and the Gleaning 2008 single work novel -
Never Mind the Octopus
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18-19 September 2010; (p. 20-21)
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Pierre's End Game
Bruce Millar
(interviewer),
2010
single work
interview
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 24-25 July 2010; (p. 18-19) 'On the eve of a visit to Australia, Booker Prize winner D. B. C. Pierre tells Bruce Millar how his latest novel was inspired by his own drug-fuelled breakdown.' -
Hard Slog Punctuated with a Little Limelight
2010
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column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 29 August 2010; (p. 7) -
'I Haven't Had Any Reason to Play It Safe. I Wouldn't Know Which Way Safe Was'
2010
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 August 2010; (p. 4-5) -
No Place Like Home
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 28 August 2010; (p. 24-25)
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London,
cEngland,ccUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,
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Berlin,
cGermany,cWestern Europe, Europe,
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Tokyo,
Honshu,
cJapan,cEast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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Galapagos Islands,
cEcuador,cSouth America, Americas,