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Adaptations
- form y Welcome to Woop Woop ( dir. Stephan Elliott ) Australia United Kingdom (UK) : Unthank Films Scala Productions , 1997 Z1806191 1997 single work film/TV humour crime A con artist escapes a deal gone wrong in New York and winds up in the Aussie outback in a strange town whose inhabitants are an oddball collection of misfits.
Notes
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Dedication: For Max Kennedy.
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Epigraph: 'The lonely man in a strange environment is naturally fearful.' (from Stay Alive by Maurice Dunleavy: an Australian government handbook on outback survival).
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Adapted for the 1998 film Welcome to Woop Woop directed by Stephan Elliott.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Imaginary Conquests of Australia
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 61 1999; (p. 136-142) -
Cover Notes
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: The Mercury , 10 July 1995; (p. 22)
— Review of The Dead Heart 1994 single work novel -
A Picaresque Ride with a Shrewd Innocent
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8 April 1995; (p. 11A)
— Review of My Own Sweet Time 1994 single work novel ; The Dead Heart 1994 single work novel
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A Picaresque Ride with a Shrewd Innocent
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8 April 1995; (p. 11A)
— Review of My Own Sweet Time 1994 single work novel ; The Dead Heart 1994 single work novel -
Cover Notes
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: The Mercury , 10 July 1995; (p. 22)
— Review of The Dead Heart 1994 single work novel -
Imaginary Conquests of Australia
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 61 1999; (p. 136-142)
Last amended 8 Jun 2006 12:06:03
Subjects:
- Australian Outback, Central Australia,
Settings:
- Darwin, Darwin area, Northern Territory,
- Western Australia,
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