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'Garry Disher’s first novel is a reflection on a long life from childhood to late middle age, with all its ambition and disappointment, its opportunities tragically seized and missed, its triumphs and consolations.
'Robert Saxby looks back on his life in a series of fragments that build into a map of wrong turns and false waymarks that have led him to a point of crisis. He remembers his parents’ compromised marriage, his father’s unrealised dreams, Robert’s exuberant rejection of their limitations and his eventual repetition of their mistakes and his own, and the way his children flirt with those old patterns.
'This is a fully realised portrait of a life and all its contradictions and connections, still as fresh as it was on its debut.'
Source : publisher's blurb (Ligature)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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An Interview with Garry Disher
Ralph Wessman
(interviewer),
1992
single work
interview
biography
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , May no. 5 1992; (p. 30-35) -
Walking Down the Literary Aisle
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , June no. 111 1988; (p. 97-101)
— Review of Steal Away 1987 single work novel ; Self Possession 1987 single work novel ; Paper Nautilus 1987 single work novel ; Home Is the Sailor, and, The Best of Intentions 1987 selected work novel ; Home is the Sailor 1987 single work novel ; The Best of Intentions 1987 single work novella ; Wedlock : A Novel 1987 single work novel ; Widdershins : A Novel 1986 single work novel ; Building on Sand 1988 single work novel ; Propinquity 1986 single work novel ; All About Anthrax 1987 selected work short story -
Clean Shoes
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 22-28 January 1988; (p. 81)
— Review of Steal Away 1987 single work novel -
Waiting in the Wings can be Costly
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 24 October 1987; (p. 8)
— Review of Steal Away 1987 single work novel ; Much Curious Pleasure 1987 single work novel -
Treatment Needed
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 11-12 July 1987; (p. 14)
— Review of Steal Away 1987 single work novel ; All About Anthrax 1987 selected work short story
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Driving Through Ordinariness
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 4 August vol. 109 no. 5581 1987; (p. 66-67)
— Review of Steal Away 1987 single work novel -
Homage to Cut-Price Supermarket Souls
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 8 August 1987; (p. 11)
— Review of Steal Away 1987 single work novel -
Treatment Needed
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 11-12 July 1987; (p. 14)
— Review of Steal Away 1987 single work novel ; All About Anthrax 1987 selected work short story -
Waiting in the Wings can be Costly
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 24 October 1987; (p. 8)
— Review of Steal Away 1987 single work novel ; Much Curious Pleasure 1987 single work novel -
Clean Shoes
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 22-28 January 1988; (p. 81)
— Review of Steal Away 1987 single work novel -
An Interview with Garry Disher
Ralph Wessman
(interviewer),
1992
single work
interview
biography
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , May no. 5 1992; (p. 30-35)