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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... no. 385 October 2016 of Australian Book Review est. 1961 Australian Book Review
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Contents

* Contents derived from the 2016 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Bragging Rights, Peter Rose , single work column (p. 1)
Vale Inga Clendinnen, Peter Rose , single work obituary (p. 1)
Vale Richard Neville, Peter Rose , single work obituary (p. 1)
Long Live Magazines!, Catherine Noske , single work correspondence (p. 5)
A Piece of the Main, Laurie Hergenhan , single work correspondence (p. 5)
The Anchor, Dennis Altman , single work review
— Review of The House That Jack Built : Jack Mundey, Green Bans Hero James Colman , 2016 single work biography ;
(p. 10)
Christopher Menz Reviews 'Australia : A German Traveller in the Age of Gold' by Friedrich Gerstäcker, Christopher Menz , single work review
— Review of Reisen : Vierter Band : Australien Friedrich Gerstaecker , 1854 single work prose ;
(p. 15)
The Changing Roomi"We tread the wood in J. Crew,", Sarah Holland-Batt , single work poetry (p. 18)
The Worst of Iti"As I combed it,", Sarah Holland-Batt , single work poetry (p. 18)
Myth Eats Man : Phillip Schuler as Catalyst, Kevin Foster , single work review
— Review of Phillip Schuler : The Remarkable Life of One of Australia's Greatest War Correspondents Mark Baker , 2016 single work biography ;
'ho was Phillip Schuler? A war correspondent for The Age, his six-week visit to Gallipoli in July and August 1915 produced, inter alia, a few of the rare eyewitness accounts of the battle and resulted in the first extended treatment of the Gallipoli campaign: Australia in Arms (1916). Schuler also compiled a unique photographic record of some of the battlefields and the living conditions in the trenches. Later enlisting as a soldier, he served in Flanders where, in April 1917, aged twenty-seven, he was fatally wounded by a stray shell.' (Introduction)
(p. 24-25)
'Trauma on My Skin' : Racism as a Force, Writing as a Response, Catherine Noske , single work review
— Review of The Hate Race : A Memoir Maxine Beneba Clarke , 2016 single work autobiography ; Carrying the World Maxine Beneba Clarke , 2016 selected work poetry ;
'cross two new titles, Maxine Beneba Clarke offers an unflinching portrayal of the impact of racism, and transcends form in turning a lens on Australian society. Together, these two works witness the myriad ways in which racism shapes the daily life of its victims, the ongoing impact and the toll on body and mind. We see this damage play out in each work, both in psychological terms and, as she describes in her memoir, physically. 'For most of my school life,' she writes, 'trauma manifested itself on my skin.' Her writing is blunt, uncompromising. Both works utilise repetition to enormous effect, layering instances of prejudice and returning again and again to specific moments of trauma. While the approach in writing differs radically across the two texts, they share stories to create something much larger between them.' (Introduction)
(p. 26-27)
'The Best Plans Never Work, Do They?' : Fourteen Authors on the Business of Wiritng, Jen Webb , single work review
— Review of Release the Bats : Writing Your Way Out Of It D. B. C. Pierre , 2016 single work autobiography ; The Writer's Room : Conversations About Writing Charlotte Wood , 2016 selected work interview ;
'Writers have, it seems, an insatiable appetite for reading about writing; and such advice comes in various forms. There are books that promise to teach their readers how to write in any form or genre imaginable. There are books on grammar and punctuation, on contracts, on making a living, on managing your profile. Whatever you want, it seems, you'll be able to find; though the quality is not always certain. This year the publishers have provided two more books in this idiom, each of which enriches the genre. Charlotte Wood, herself an accomplished author, talks with equally accomplished writers about their experience of the business – the life – of writing. (This prodigious effort is made more impressive by the fact that, at the same time, she was writing her Stella Prize-winning novel The Natural Way of Things [2016].) DBC Pierre, enfant terrible of the early 2000s and author of the Booker Prize-winning Vernon God Little (2003), offers what the blurb calls an 'irreverent guide to writing fiction', one that skips through principles and technical aspects, and weaves it together with anecdotes from his larger-than-life life.' (Introduction)
(p. 27-28)
The Escapologist : Possible Equivalences in a Cat-and-Mouse Game, Sue Kossew , single work review
— Review of The Schooldays of Jesus J. M. Coetzee , 2016 single work single work novel ;
'n order to grasp the complexity of allusions in J.M. Coetzee's new novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, you need to have your wits about you. On the other hand, as with its prequel, The Childhood of Jesus (2013), the novel may also be read fairly simply, as a fable. As a sequel to the first 'Jesus' novel, it progresses the story of Simón, Inés, and David, the 'holy family,' as they continue their journey, with their dog Bolívar, from the town named Novilla to a new town, Estrella, meaning 'star' in Spanish, in an unspecified Spanish-speaking country.' (Introduction)
(p. 29-30)
Alarmsi"Miracles are not like tempests.", Jill Jones , single work poetry (p. 30)
Cold Places, Amy Baillieu , single work review
— Review of The Good People Hannah Kent , 2016 single work novel ;
'After reading her début novel about Agnes Magnúsdóttir, the last person to be executed in Iceland, no one is likely to pick up a book by Hannah Kent expecting a frothy comedy set in a sun-drenched contemporary location, but even for the author of Burial Rites (2013) this compelling new historical novel ventures into grim and shadowy territory.' (Introduction)
(p. 31)
A Frolic in the Slips, Craig Billingham , single work review
— Review of The Rules of Backyard Cricket Jock Serong , 2016 single work novel ;
(p. 33)
Moonstone, Claudia Hyles , single work review
— Review of Ruins Rajith Savanadasa , 2016 single work novel ;
(p. 34)
'Bobbin Up by Dorothy Hewett', Nicholas Jose , single work essay
'Bobbin Up was written in 1958 during eight weeks of the coldest Sydney winter on record', recalled Dorothy Hewett in her introduction to the Virago Modern Classics reprint of her first novel in 1985. Encouraged by Frank Hardy, Hewett wrote it for the Mary Gilmore Award for fiction, to a tight deadline. After being rescued from a cupboard by one of the judges, it won second prize. Published by the leftist Australasian Book Society in 1959, the first edition was a success and the 3,000 copies sold out quickly. But it was not available again until Seven Seas in East Berlin published an English export edition along with its German translation, Die Mädchen von Sydney, in 1965, with a print run of 10,000 copies, from which other Eastern bloc translations followed.' (Introduction)
(p. 36-40)
Review : The Kettering Incident, Jake Wilson , single work review
— Review of The Kettering Incident Vicki Madden , Louise Fox , Cate Shortland , Andrew Knight , Vincent Sheehan , 2015 series - publisher film/TV ;
(p. 43)
Francis Bacon Created Australian Literaturei"His feet were stubborn", Stuart Cooke , single work poetry (p. 47)

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