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y separately published work icon Great Western Highway : A Love Story single work   novel  
Alternative title: Capital, Volume One, Part Two
Is part of Capital Volume One Anthony Macris , 1997 series - author novel
Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Great Western Highway : A Love Story
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Thirty-something Nick is walking down Parramatta Road's six lanes of thundering traffic to see his former girlfriend Penny for the first time since they agreed to be 'just friends'. By the novel's end, he is racing back up that same road so he does not lose her. Nick and Penny's awkward romance is played out against the backdrop of high capitalism and the rise of the digital age. Bombarded by advertisements, slogans, news, wars, politics and consumerism, just a little silence is hard to find. [from the back cover]

Notes

  • Dedication: For Kathy and Alex

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crawley, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: UWA Publishing , 2012 .
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      Extent: vii, 355 p.p.
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      • Includes Author's note, p. 335-348. Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-[354])
      ISBN: 9781742584157 (pbk.)
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Related Works

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— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 182 2006; (p. 52-57)
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Works about this Work

Walking Parramatta Road : Reading the City Street in Anthony Macris' Great Western Highway Julian Murphy , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: New Scholar , vol. 3 no. 2 2014;
Adding to the Hall of Mirrors : A Fictocritical Response to Anthony Macris' Great Western Highway Julian Murphy , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 18 no. 1 2014; 'In this essay I take, as my departure point, Anthony Macris’ 2012 novel Great Western Highway: a love story. My specific focus is the presence of technology in the novel, and the way technology is shown to shape relations between individuals and between the individual and the world. Rather than adopt a strictly critical mode of writing, I have chosen to write this essay by oscillating between critical and creative prose, and drawing on a mixture of academic research, personal experience and anecdote. Such a mode is invited by Macris’ novel, which itself occupies the liminal space between fictional and critical writing. Furthermore, the fictocritical format of this essay allows me to deliberately confuse and conflate my own images with those from Macris’ novel. I enact this confusion in the hope that my essay becomes a contribution to Macris’ textual hall of mirrors, or what he more technically labels the ‘Generative mise en abyme’ (Macris 2008: 2).' (Publication summary)
Just a Little Bit Brilliant : Anthony Macris' Great Western Highway - a Love Story Tristan Foster , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Verity La , March 2013;
— Review of Great Western Highway : A Love Story Anthony Macris , 2012 single work novel
Drifting Patrick Allington , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 348 2013; (p. 25)
— Review of Great Western Highway : A Love Story Anthony Macris , 2012 single work novel
On the Road Again Jeffrey Poacher , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , June 2013;
— Review of Great Western Highway : A Love Story Anthony Macris , 2012 single work novel
Fiction Jennifer Peterson-Ward , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 8 December 2012; (p. 21)
— Review of Great Western Highway : A Love Story Anthony Macris , 2012 single work novel
A Capaitalist Statement, without the Realism Gerard Windsor , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 15 December 2012; (p. 32)
— Review of Great Western Highway : A Love Story Anthony Macris , 2012 single work novel
Untitled James Rose , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier Mail , 29-30 December 2012; (p. 68)
— Review of Great Western Highway : A Love Story Anthony Macris , 2012 single work novel
Radical Ride Through the Moronic Inferno Geordie Williamson , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 December 2012; (p. 14-15)
— Review of Great Western Highway : A Love Story Anthony Macris , 2012 single work novel
Drifting Patrick Allington , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 348 2013; (p. 25)
— Review of Great Western Highway : A Love Story Anthony Macris , 2012 single work novel
One Sep Forward, Two Steps Back Anthony Macris , 2003 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Heat , no. 5 (New Series) 2003; (p. 211-220)
Love Goes to Market (from a work-in-progress) Anthony Macris , 2005 extract criticism
— Appears in: Heat , no. 10 (New Series) 2005; (p. 235-252)
Adding to the Hall of Mirrors : A Fictocritical Response to Anthony Macris' Great Western Highway Julian Murphy , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 18 no. 1 2014; 'In this essay I take, as my departure point, Anthony Macris’ 2012 novel Great Western Highway: a love story. My specific focus is the presence of technology in the novel, and the way technology is shown to shape relations between individuals and between the individual and the world. Rather than adopt a strictly critical mode of writing, I have chosen to write this essay by oscillating between critical and creative prose, and drawing on a mixture of academic research, personal experience and anecdote. Such a mode is invited by Macris’ novel, which itself occupies the liminal space between fictional and critical writing. Furthermore, the fictocritical format of this essay allows me to deliberately confuse and conflate my own images with those from Macris’ novel. I enact this confusion in the hope that my essay becomes a contribution to Macris’ textual hall of mirrors, or what he more technically labels the ‘Generative mise en abyme’ (Macris 2008: 2).' (Publication summary)
Walking Parramatta Road : Reading the City Street in Anthony Macris' Great Western Highway Julian Murphy , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: New Scholar , vol. 3 no. 2 2014;
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Awards

2000 Highly commended New South Wales Writer's Fellowship For the manuscript titled: Capital, Volume One, Part Two (a work-in-progress)
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