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Bennett jogs along the country bitumen an anxious man, his CRETE hat guarding against the magpie's deadly swoop. Who is he, where has Jasmine gone, why is he overwhelmed by a sense of doom? Pat-pat, pat-pat, pat-pat ...his dogged feet propel him inexorably into a comic nightmare. 'When I sit down at the desk I can feel my characters cringe,' Nabokov once remarked. The characters in Magpie might well cringe as they are put through their hoops by two of Australia's leading writers in a novel that is part collaboration, part argument and always irreverent fun. 'A satire of the perils of publishing and the anxieties of authorship, Magpie ends as a playful parody of certain trends in literary theory ...an audacious and entertaining romp.' -(Source: Australian Bookseller and Publisher)
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Epigraph: 'Perhaps One Morning' by Eugenio Montale.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Culture Vulture Looks Back : Magpie (1992)
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 31 May-1 June 2003; (p. 10)
— Review of Magpie : A Novel 1992 single work novel -
An Anecdote a Day Keeps Analysis Away : Gendered Relations of Power and an 'Academic Spoof'
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 19 no. 1 1993; (p. 155-163) -
Untitled
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , August/September vol. 7 no. 8 & 9 1992; (p. 11)
— Review of Magpie : A Novel 1992 single work novel -
Ridicule is Alive and Well Deep in the Bowels of Limbo Land
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Mercury , 4 July 1992; (p. 24)
— Review of Magpie : A Novel 1992 single work novel -
Women's Lives in Sensuous Detail
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11-12 April 1992; (p. rev 4)
— Review of Magpie : A Novel 1992 single work novel ; Victim Train 1992 selected work short story ; The Crocodile Club 1992 single work novel
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Culture Vulture Looks Back : Magpie (1992)
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 31 May-1 June 2003; (p. 10)
— Review of Magpie : A Novel 1992 single work novel -
Untitled
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , August/September vol. 7 no. 8 & 9 1992; (p. 11)
— Review of Magpie : A Novel 1992 single work novel -
People, Not Symbols
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Modern Times , May no. 3 1992; (p. 30)
— Review of Heart of Light 1992 single work novel ; Magpie : A Novel 1992 single work novel ; Only Lawyers Dancing 1992 single work novel -
Recent Australian Fiction
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Quadrant , November vol. 36 no. 11 1992; (p. 86-88)
— Review of Raising the Shadow 1992 single work novel ; The Last Magician 1992 single work novel ; Good Night, Mr Moon 1992 single work novel ; The Blosseville File 1992 single work novel ; Breaking Glass : A Novel in Two Parts 1992 single work novel ; Things Could Be Worse 1999 selected work short story ; What God Wants 1991 selected work short story ; Magpie : A Novel 1992 single work novel -
Forecasts
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , December-January (1991-1992) vol. 71 no. 1022 1991; (p. 14-15)
— Review of Magpie : A Novel 1992 single work novel -
Writing Real Lives and Almost-True Yarns
Giles Hugo
(interviewer),
1990
single work
biography
interview
— Appears in: The Saturday Mercury , 8 December 1990; (p. 24) -
An Anecdote a Day Keeps Analysis Away : Gendered Relations of Power and an 'Academic Spoof'
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 19 no. 1 1993; (p. 155-163)