'You Will Have a Drink with Me' : The Story of 'Wake in Fright' and Its Afterlives

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Author:agent Jacqueline Kent

Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 'You Will Have a Drink with Me' : The Story of 'Wake in Fright' and Its Afterlives

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'Wake in Fright was published in 1961, more than 50 years ago. Australia, many assume, has come a long way since then. Yet Kenneth Cook’s masterpiece, the novel by which he is still best known and that has hardly ever been out of print, is timeless. The forces that plunge hapless schoolteacher John Grant into a spiral of alcoholic despair—lack of money, desperation, the heat and the alien nature of the landscape—remain menacingly relevant.' (Introduction)

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y Meanjin vol. 78 no. 1 Autumn 2019 16531898 2019 periodical issue Abstract
'We were just a little surprised when the Australia Council said yes. But then a year later—as you were—they said no.

'Three years back, when the council redrew the map of arts funding, Meanjin lost its rolling three-year key organisation grant, a pattern that had allowed if not luxury then a degree of certainty. Money was the root of it all: the council’s budget had been gutted and cuts had to be made. Whatever discomforting ripples were felt through opera, ballet and theatre companies had become a toxic trickle by the time the tide of change made its way down the funding food chain to bodies whose business was literature.' (Jonathan Green, Introduction)
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