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Alternative title: ABR
Issue Details: First known date: 2014... no. 362 June-July 2014 of Australian Book Review est. 1961 Australian Book Review
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2014 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Wild Ride, Tony Birch , single work review
— Review of The Glass Kingdom Chris Flynn , 2014 single work novel ; (p. 63)
Sri Lankan Fairy Tale, Claudia Hyles , single work review
— Review of Saree Su Dharmapala , 2014 single work novel ; (p. 65)
Review : Chasing Shadows, Sonia Nair , single work review
— Review of Chasing Shadows Leila Yusuf Chung , 2014 single work single work novel ; (p. 68)
Review : How I Became the Mr Big of People Smuggling, Simon Collinson , single work review
— Review of How I Became the Mr Big of People Smuggling Martin Chambers , 2014 single work novel ; (p. 70)
Review : Meatloaf in Manhattan, Ben Smith , single work review
— Review of Meatloaf in Manhattan Robert Power , 2014 selected work short story ; (p. 70)
Review : Murder in the Telephone Exchange, Francesca Sasnaitis , single work review
— Review of Murder in the Telephone Exchange June Wright , 1948 single work novel ; (p. 70)
Serial Age, Margaret Robson Kett , single work review
— Review of Admission Barry Jonsberg , 2014 single work novel ; Crooked Leg Road Jennifer Walsh , 2014 single work novel ; (p. 71)
Critic of the Month : Jane Sullivan, single work interview (p. 72)
[Review Essay] Under the Skin, Dion Kagan , single work essay
— Review of Under the Skin 1993 series - publisher film/TV ;

'Under the Skin is adapted from Michael Faber’s eponymous speculative fiction novel (2000) in which an alien disguised as an attractive woman hunts hitchhikers in the Scottish highlands. Once she has determined that a man is appropriate prey, she drugs him and delivers him to a subterranean abattoir hidden beneath a farm where, in a disturbing allegorisation of factory farming, he is castrated, fattened up like foie gras, and prepared for shipment back to the alien home planet where human flesh is an expensive delicacy. This adaptation of Faber’s novel is the long-anticipated third feature film from director Jonathan Glazer.' (Introduction)
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