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Ben Wallymacher has always struggled to keep up with Francis. Friends from childhood, their lives diverge as they battle with the big questions - relationships, fathering, the limits of spontaneity, the usefulness of seventies obsessions like the 'human potential movement' - until they're drawn together again by Francis's elusive daughter, Piaf.
This ironic comic novel flits from the past to the present, weaving a tale of life's journey with some pretty interesting pit stops - geodesic domes, psychodrama and gurus, armed robbery and prison, New York and Fremantle, the Chelsea Hotel and Adele's B & B.
It's about an ordinary man trying not to make too much of a wally of himself.
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Dedication: For Alena.
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Epigraph: You then will awaken as radical freedom, and sing those songs of radiant release, beam an infinity too obvious to see, and drink an ocean of delight. Ken Wilber.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Acts of Noticing : A Consideration of Some Recent Australian Fiction
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 45 no. 2000; (p. 23-36)
— Review of The Red Heart 1999 selected work essay autobiography ; Untold Tales 1999 selected work short story ; Dream Stuff 2000 selected work short story ; Blue : A Novel 1999 single work novel ; Freedom Highway 1999 single work novel ; The Chelsea Manifesto : A Novel 1999 single work novel ; Painted Words 1999 anthology short story poetry ; Liv : A Novel 2000 single work novel ; Hidden from View 1999 single work novel ; Benang : From the Heart 1999 single work novel ; Drylands : A Book for the World's Last Reader 1999 single work novel ; An Accommodating Spouse 1999 single work novel ; Neap Tide 1999 single work novel ; Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop 1999 single work novel ; Poe's Cat 1999 single work novel ; Playing Madame Mao 2000 single work novel ; The Hunter 1999 single work novel ; The Australian Fiance 2000 single work novel -
Fiction : Two Men Follow Dreams
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 14 no. 1 2000; (p. 69-70)
— Review of The Chelsea Manifesto : A Novel 1999 single work novel -
Manifesto
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 215 1999; (p. 32-33)
— Review of The Chelsea Manifesto : A Novel 1999 single work novel -
Distaff Side of Plato
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4-5 September 1999; (p. 14)
— Review of Republic of Women 1999 single work novel ; Dogs Are Barking 1999 single work novel ; Keep Your Hands on the Wheel 1999 single work novel ; The Chelsea Manifesto : A Novel 1999 single work novel
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Distaff Side of Plato
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4-5 September 1999; (p. 14)
— Review of Republic of Women 1999 single work novel ; Dogs Are Barking 1999 single work novel ; Keep Your Hands on the Wheel 1999 single work novel ; The Chelsea Manifesto : A Novel 1999 single work novel -
Manifesto
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 215 1999; (p. 32-33)
— Review of The Chelsea Manifesto : A Novel 1999 single work novel -
Fiction : Two Men Follow Dreams
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 14 no. 1 2000; (p. 69-70)
— Review of The Chelsea Manifesto : A Novel 1999 single work novel -
Acts of Noticing : A Consideration of Some Recent Australian Fiction
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 45 no. 2000; (p. 23-36)
— Review of The Red Heart 1999 selected work essay autobiography ; Untold Tales 1999 selected work short story ; Dream Stuff 2000 selected work short story ; Blue : A Novel 1999 single work novel ; Freedom Highway 1999 single work novel ; The Chelsea Manifesto : A Novel 1999 single work novel ; Painted Words 1999 anthology short story poetry ; Liv : A Novel 2000 single work novel ; Hidden from View 1999 single work novel ; Benang : From the Heart 1999 single work novel ; Drylands : A Book for the World's Last Reader 1999 single work novel ; An Accommodating Spouse 1999 single work novel ; Neap Tide 1999 single work novel ; Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop 1999 single work novel ; Poe's Cat 1999 single work novel ; Playing Madame Mao 2000 single work novel ; The Hunter 1999 single work novel ; The Australian Fiance 2000 single work novel
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