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'Thirty stories in the incomparably distinctive voice of the author whose publishing career started with the comic novel Rappaport. One story starts with "I won a house in a lottery", and proceeds to career seemingly out of control – except it isn’t. Other stories open in equally startling fashion.
'Try: "Hergesheimer flees his marriage in a twenty-four-year-old car …"; "How do you steal from a thief?"; "Show me a man without tantrum and I’ll show you a man without blood"; "The prettiest damsel in many a moon drops a smile in Hergesheimer’s direction, which he, ever the gallant, snatches expertly up, with a bow courteously returns."'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Works about this Work
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Well Read
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 9 August 2014; (p. 25)
— Review of A Million Windows 2014 single work novel ; Hergesheimer in the Present Tense 2014 selected work short story -
The World That Conspires Against the Older Artist
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26-27 July 2014; (p. 31) The Age , 26 July 2014; (p. 25)
— Review of Hergesheimer in the Present Tense 2014 selected work short story
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The World That Conspires Against the Older Artist
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26-27 July 2014; (p. 31) The Age , 26 July 2014; (p. 25)
— Review of Hergesheimer in the Present Tense 2014 selected work short story -
Well Read
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 9 August 2014; (p. 25)
— Review of A Million Windows 2014 single work novel ; Hergesheimer in the Present Tense 2014 selected work short story
Last amended 9 Oct 2014 10:33:00