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Elliot Perlman Elliot Perlman i(A16168 works by)
Born: Established: 1964 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Male
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1 Three Dollars, 25 Years and Three Conversations Elliot Perlman , 2023 single work column
— Appears in: The Monthly , March 2023; (p. 50-53) 'IT WAS A LATE Saturday morning in the winter of 1995. I had gone to the supermarket nearest my fl at in inner south-eastern suburban Melbourne to buy a version of the single man’s standard weekly groceries. What the various items I put in the supermarket trolley had in common was that they were all chosen, consciously or otherwise, because they could be consumed without much preparation. Living alone, the last thing I wanted was to spend time in the evening preparing batches of food that I knew in advance – because I had eaten my own cooking before – were going to taste awful.' (Introduction)
1 y separately published work icon Catvinkle and the Missing Tulips Elliot Perlman , Melbourne : Puffin , 2020 20540343 2020 single work children's fiction children's

'Award-winning novelist Elliot Perlman’s second book of Catvinkle’s adventures is another wise, wonderful and warm-hearted tale.

'When best friends Catvinkle and Ula are asked to defend two sheep accused of eating Amsterdam's tulips, they're not sure what to believe. The sheep say they're innocent, but they do look very sheepish.

'To win this case, Catvinkle will need the help of a wolfhound, a llama, two travelling koalas, a pair of Russian bears . . . and a very special bird.' (Publication summary)
2 6 y separately published work icon Maybe the Horse Will Talk Elliot Perlman , Sydney : Vintage Australia , 2019 17490749 2019 single work novel

'‘I am absolutely terrified of losing a job I absolutely hate.’

'Stephen Maserov has problems. A onetime teacher, married to fellow teacher Eleanor, he has retrained and is now a second-year lawyer working at mega-firm Freely Savage Carter Blanche. Despite toiling around the clock to make budget, he’s in imminent danger of being downsized. And to make things worse, Eleanor, sick of single-parenting their two young children thanks to Stephen’s relentless work schedule, has asked him to move out.

'To keep the job he hates, pay the mortgage and salvage his marriage, he will have to do something strikingly daring, something he never thought himself capable of. But if he’s not careful, it might be the last job he ever has…'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 y separately published work icon The Adventures of Catvinkle Elliot Perlman , 2018 Melbourne : Puffin , 2018- 20540297 2018 series - author children's fiction
1 y separately published work icon The Adventures of Catvinkle Elliot Perlman , Melbourne : Puffin , 2018 14730620 2018 single work children's fiction children's

'When a pampered cat has to share her home with a lost dog, sparks are set to fly. To her surprise, Catvinkle starts to like Ula. She even tells Ula her three secrets. But a cat and a dog can’t be friends – can they?

'A tail-spin of a tale that will make you howl with laughter – and remind you that if you aren’t open to adventure, you might never meet your best friend.'  (Publication summary)

 
1 The Licorice Straps Elliot Perlman , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 23 December- 26 January 2018;

'In the hours between two days you stumble through half-remembered lanes into the child that was you. What comes back to you in those moments; reliably? And who, among all the people you knew then, among the people that come to mind; who remembers you? And what else do they remember?' (Introduction)
1 Here's the Thing Elliot Perlman , 2017 single work short story
— Appears in: The Big Issue , August no. 544 2017; (p. 26-27) Best Summer Stories 2018; (p. 88-91)
1 Seven Types of Ambiguity Elliot Perlman , 2017 extract novel
— Appears in: Underline , March no. 2 2017; (p. 20-21)
— Review of Seven Types of Ambiguity Elliot Perlman , 2003 single work novel
1 While the Drum Beats, 'Stop the Boats' Elliot Perlman , 2013 single work autobiography
— Appears in: A Country Too Far : Writings on Asylum Seekers 2013; (p. 21-24)
1 One Morning in Murray Hill Elliot Perlman , 2012 single work short story
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 8 December 2012; (p. 47-48) 'A personal crisis compels Beth Seligman to look at her family and her religion in a new light in this short story by Elliot Perlman.' (Editor's abstract)
1 The Words That Have Inspired Helen Garner , Thomas Keneally , Germaine Greer , Alex Miller , Colm Toibin , Kerry Greenwood , Elliot Perlman , Brenda Niall , Anna Funder , Luke Davies , Peter Temple , Jennifer Maiden , Richard Flanagan , Michael Robotham , Kate Holden , Michael Farrell , Chris Wallace-Crabbe , Sophie Cunningham , Robert Adamson , James Bradley , Kim Scott , Charlotte Wood , Michael McGirr , Gig Ryan , Chris Womersley , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 8 December 2012; (p. 26-29) The Canberra Times , 8 December 2012; (p. 19-22) The Sydney Morning Herald , 8-9 December 2012; (p. 32-36) Australian writers and reviewers, together with Ireland's Colm Toibin, each nominate their best books of 2012. Some of the books listed are by Australian writers.
1 Stop the Boats Elliot Perlman , 2012 single work prose
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 71 no. 2 2012; (p. 9-11)
1 The Getting of Wisdom : Lessons Learnt from Life : Elliot Perlman Elliot Perlman , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 10 December 2011; (p. 54)
1 The Scribes' Selection Peter Carey , Favel Parrett , Geraldine Brooks , Alex Miller , Steven Amsterdam , John Tranter , Helen Garner , Brenda Walker , Sophie Cunningham , Fiona McGregor , Richard Flanagan , Elliot Perlman , Nikki Gemmell , Thomas Keneally , Peggy Frew , Anson Cameron , Robert Adamson , Charlotte Wood , Robert Manne , Gig Ryan , Nam Le , Shane Maloney , Luke Davies , A. P. Riemer , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 10 December 2011; (p. 28-31) The Sydney Morning Herald , 10-11 December 2011; (p. 30-33) Australian writers and reviewers each nominate their best books of 2011. Some of the books listed are by Australian writers.
1 What I Know About Women : Elliot Perlman Elliot Perlman , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: Sunday Life , 6 November 2011; (p. 30)
4 28 y separately published work icon The Street Sweeper Elliot Perlman , North Sydney : Vintage Australia , 2011 Z1796895 2011 single work novel 'How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away.

'From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanity in Europe, there are more stories than people passing each other every day on the bustling streets of every crowded city. Only some survive to become history.

'Recently released from prison, Lamont Williams, an African American probationary janitor in a Manhattan hospital and father of a little girl he can't locate, strikes up an unlikely friendship with an elderly patient, a Holocaust survivor who had been a prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau. A few kilometres uptown, Australian historian Adam Zignelik, an untenured Columbia professor, finds both his career and his long-term romantic relationship falling apart. Emerging out of the depths of his own personal history, Adam sees, in a promising research topic suggested by an American World War II veteran, the beginnings of something that might just save him professionally and perhaps even personally. As these two men try to survive in early twenty-first-century New York, history comes to life in ways neither of them could have foreseen. Two very different paths - Lamont's and Adam's - lead to one greater story as The Street Sweeper, in dealing with memory, love, guilt, heroism, the extremes of racism and unexpected kindness, spans the twentieth century to the present, and spans the globe from New York to Melbourne, Chicago to Auschwitz.

'Epic in scope, this is a remarkable feat of storytelling.' (From publisher's website.)
3 15 form y separately published work icon Three Dollars Robert Connolly , Elliot Perlman , ( dir. Robert Connolly ) Australia : Arenafilm , 2005 Z1354058 2005 single work film/TV

'Based on Elliot Perlman's award-winning novel, THREE DOLLARS tells the story of an honest, compassionate man who finds himself, at the age of 38, with a wife, a child and three dollars.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 16/12/2013)
1 The Human Cost of Economic Rationalism Elliot Perlman , 2004 single work essay An earlier verson of this essay was presented as a talk at the Perth Festival of Ideas in July 2004
1 Body Corporate Elliot Perlman , 2003 single work column
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 26 August vol. 121 no. 6387 2003; (p. 84)
8 29 y separately published work icon Seven Types of Ambiguity Elliot Perlman , Sydney : Picador , 2003 Z1050772 2003 single work novel thriller

'At once a psychological thriller and a social critique, Seven Types of Ambiguity is a novel of obsessive love in an age of obsessive materialism.

'Following years of unrequited love, an out-of-work schoolteacher decides to take matters into his own hands, triggering a chain of events no one could have anticipated.

'This is a story of impulse and paralysis, of empty marriages, lovers and a small boy, gambling and the market, of adult children and their parents, of poetry and prostitution, psychiatry and the law.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Faber ed.).
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