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'Why can't life be as simple as a Chippendale chair? For Rappaport, antique dealer, magazine fanatic, cake eater extraordinaire, it is anything but. A girl he hardly knows decides to marry him, his best friend Friedlander is giving up his prince of a job in advertising to paint some obscure Greek island, there's not a single Marx Brothers movie showing in the whole of Melbourne ... will Rappaport live through the day? If it wasn't so funny, it'd be desperate, but funny it is, though peeping round the edges of this one wild day in Rappaport's life is a penetrating picture of young people today.'
Source: Publisher's blurb (1977 Angus and Robertson edition)
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Dedication: For my brother Norman, this ultimate chutzpah.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Recent Paperbacks
1969
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 41 1969; (p. 45-46)
— Review of Rappaport 1966 single work novel ; The Heart Is Where the Hurt Is 1966 single work novel -
The Australian Novel
1968
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 3 February 1968; (p. 22) Opinion , vol. 12 no. 3 1968; (p. 52-55) -
Mod but Not Mad
1967
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 15 April 1967; (p. 9)
— Review of Rappaport 1966 single work novel -
Untitled
1967
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March vol. 6 no. 5 1967; (p. 69)
— Review of Dark Stranger 1965 single work novel ; Rappaport 1966 single work novel ; Contillo : A Novel 1966 single work novel
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Mod but Not Mad
1967
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 15 April 1967; (p. 9)
— Review of Rappaport 1966 single work novel -
Untitled
1967
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March vol. 6 no. 5 1967; (p. 69)
— Review of Dark Stranger 1965 single work novel ; Rappaport 1966 single work novel ; Contillo : A Novel 1966 single work novel -
Recent Paperbacks
1969
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 41 1969; (p. 45-46)
— Review of Rappaport 1966 single work novel ; The Heart Is Where the Hurt Is 1966 single work novel -
The Australian Novel
1968
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 3 February 1968; (p. 22) Opinion , vol. 12 no. 3 1968; (p. 52-55)
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Subjects:
- Melbourne, Victoria,
Settings:
- Melbourne, Victoria,
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