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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 The Dogs : A Novel
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'Is it possible to write about the living without thinking of them as already dead?

'Michael Shamanov is a man running away from life’s responsibilities. His marriage is over, he barely sees his son and he hasn’t seen his mother since banishing her to a nursing home two years earlier. A successful screen writer, Michael’s encounter with his mother’s nurse leads him to discover that the greatest story he’s never heard may lie with his dying mother. And perhaps it’s her life he’s been running away from and not his own. Is the past ever finished? Should we respect another’s silence? And if so, is it ever possible to understand and put to rest the strange idea of family that travels through the flesh?

'From the Miles Franklin shortlisted author of No One comes a haunting gem of family secrets and impossible decisions.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Author's note: Once again, for Mary Ann, with love.

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    • Perth, Western Australia,: Upswell Publishing , 2021 .
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      • Published 28 September 2021.
      ISBN: 9780645076349
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Works about this Work

Blotting His Copy Book Anna Katherine Verney , Richard Cooke , 2023 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 February 2023; (p. 16)
Being John Hughes Anna Katherine Verney , Richard Cooke , 2023 single work essay
— Appears in: The Monthly , March 2023; (p. 34-48) 'BACK IN THE EARLY 1980S, though he was still an undergraduate at the University of Newcastle, John Hughes was already being described as a genius. He was the fi rst person in his family to attend university. His grandparents, Ukrainians displaced by World War Two, were, according to him, the only people in Cessnock who spoke a language other than English. Amid the culture of the coalfi elds and their “mistrust of words”, as Hughes put it later, he grew up reading Tolstoy under the bed covers, and imagined himself writing “words of the same power and beauty”. The teachers who clamoured around him were amazed by his erudition. He seemed predestined to write. It was as if he was preordained to become a writer.' (Introduction)
Writing Is a ‘questionable Business’, but What to Make of John Hughes, One of the Most Prolific Plagiarists in Literary History? Dan Dixon , 2023 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 1 March 2023;
Cave Canem Lucy Sussex , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , September vol. 81 no. 3 2022; (p. 6-8) 'Nobody wanted to be quoted, unsurprising with a literary scandal. And this particular case proved unusually good. Australia has had Malley, Khoury, Demidenko ... and now John Hughes’ The Dogs.' (Introduction)
Plagiarism, John Hughes’ The Dogs and the Ethical Responsibilities of the Novelist Alyson Miller , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 21 June 2022;

'John Hughes’s novel The Dogs has been withdrawn from the longlist for the Miles Franklin Prize after an investigation by The Guardian identified numerous instances of plagiarism. Hughes’s lifting of passages from other books has sparked furious debate and literary detective work – mostly on Twitter – prompting questions about the nature of influences, literary pastiche and the attribution of sources in novels.' (Introduction)
John Hughes : The Dogs Paul Anderson , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , October 2021;
— Review of The Dogs : A Novel John Hughes , 2021 single work novel

'The new novel from award-winning writer John Hughes explores the transmission of trauma down the generations.'
The Dogs, John Hughes Geordie Williamson , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 13-19 November 2021;
— Review of The Dogs : A Novel John Hughes , 2021 single work novel
Nowhere for Sleeping Dogs to Lie Stephen Romei , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4 December 2021;
— Review of The Dogs : A Novel John Hughes , 2021 single work novel
Miles Franklin Prize Removes Novel from Longlist after Author Apologises for Plagiarism Anna Katherine Verney , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 10 June 2022;
Miles Franklin-nominated Novelist Apologises for Plagiarising Nobel Laureate ‘without realising’ Anna Katherine Verney , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 9 June 2022;
Parts of John Hughes’ Novel The Dogs Copied from The Great Gatsby and Anna Karenina Anna Katherine Verney , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 15 June 2022;
Literary Experts Find John Hughes’ Plagiarism Defence Unconvincing Kelly Burke , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 18 June 2022;
John Hughes : I Am Not a Plagiarist – and Here’s Why John Hughes , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 16 June 2022;
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