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Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 Wonderful
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'Newsreels gave way to cartoon rabbits, theatre announcements and featured pictures, the ticker of the projector lighting the way through an empty sky. And there was Siggy, scene after scene, riding elephants and running from lions, laughing and jumping and swinging through the trees, smiling and kissing, wet lips puckered and arms open wide, his beautiful grey face filling the silver screen and dissolving into the white-hot light of the sun. 

'Jozsef Kiss, amateur Hungarian physician and animal trainer, arrives in Hollywood in the summer of 1931 with his African travelling companion, an orphaned chimpanzee. That chimpanzee becomes Siggy the Wonder Chimp, Jungle Man s faithful jungle companion, and a bona fide star.

'Wonderful is the story of a movie star monkey and his hapless, drunken partner. Complete with exploding coconuts and chimpanzee antics, it follows the adventures of a man and his animal sidekick as they encounter the strange and dusty landscape of California, agents and starlets, cowboys and elephants, the Depression and fascism, and the onset of the Second World War. It is a comic and sometimes sad emigrant s tale, a story of the invention and reinvention of people and nations, of history and of dreams. Above all, it is a story of loyalty, friendship and love.' (Synopsis)

Notes

  • Dedication: For my Grandma Cookie Lookie, lookie, lookie
  • Editor's note: They gave me a test. It was all right in the face. But they talk now. The picturs, I mean. And when I began to talk, up there on the screen, they knew me for what I was, and so did I. A cheap Des Moines trollop, that has as much chance in pictures asa monkey has. Not as much. A monkey, anyway, can make you laugh. James M. Cain. The Postman Always Rings Twice.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2004 .
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      Extent: 384p.
      ISBN: 1741142385

Works about this Work

Monkey Business Mary Philip , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 7 February 2004; (p. 8)

— Review of Wonderful Andrew Humphreys , 2004 single work novel
Other Voices Tony Maniaty , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 3-4 April 2004; (p. 10-11)

— Review of Top Bloke Gordon Graham , 2003 single work novel ; Wonderful Andrew Humphreys , 2004 single work novel ; The Secret World of Annette Robinson : A Novel Paulette Gittins , 2004 single work novel ; Forever Shores : Fiction of the Fantastic 2003 anthology short story extract
Monkey Business in an Outsider's Life Dan Silkstone , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 March 2004; (p. 5)

— Review of Wonderful Andrew Humphreys , 2004 single work novel
Paperbacks Ian McFarlane , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 21 March 2004; (p. 19)

— Review of A Private Man Malcolm Knox , 2004 single work novel ; Wonderful Andrew Humphreys , 2004 single work novel ; The Ghost Writer John Harwood , 2004 single work novel
The Day of the Chimp Brian McFarlane , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 258 2004; (p. 37)

— Review of Wonderful Andrew Humphreys , 2004 single work novel
Untitled Tim Coronel , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , December 2003 / January vol. 83 no. 6 2004; (p. 36)

— Review of Wonderful Andrew Humphreys , 2004 single work novel
Wonderful Whirl Mandy Sayer , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 10 February vol. 122 no. 6407 2004; (p. 68-69)

— Review of Wonderful Andrew Humphreys , 2004 single work novel
Fine Line Between Fame and Tragedy Bronwyn Rivers , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 February 2004; (p. 14)

— Review of Wonderful Andrew Humphreys , 2004 single work novel
The Day of the Chimp Brian McFarlane , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 258 2004; (p. 37)

— Review of Wonderful Andrew Humphreys , 2004 single work novel
Paperbacks Ian McFarlane , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 21 March 2004; (p. 19)

— Review of A Private Man Malcolm Knox , 2004 single work novel ; Wonderful Andrew Humphreys , 2004 single work novel ; The Ghost Writer John Harwood , 2004 single work novel
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