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'Howard Hughes was one of the strangest and most significant figures of the twentieth century: aviator, film mogul, serial womaniser, billionaire, political meddler, drug addict, recluse. His obsessive-compulsive disorder would end up crippling and isolating him; in the end he self-medicated his way into oblivion.
'In the last years of Hughes' life, feeling his power ebb, bedridden and hopelessly addicted to drugs, he lays out and lays bare his history. He loops and reloops the past on a seemingly endless reel in his head as he spirals into madness and disconnection. In stops and starts, his life unfolds and gradually we see the shape and preoccupations of the twentieth century emerging from his ruined psyche - a world of oil, money, planes, flight, movies, drugs, sex, neurosis, fear - a world where paranoia reigns.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Launched at Paperchain, Manuka, Australian Capital Territory, 10 April 2008.
Affiliation Notes
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Writing Disability in Australia
Type of disability Obsessive-compulsive disorder. Type of character Primary. Point of view First person.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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You Did Not Read Faulkner!
Sophie Cunningham
(interviewer),
2008
single work
interview
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 67 no. 2 2008; (p. 110-119) 'Sophie Cunningham talks to Luke Davies about his shifting between forms - and finds his heart still lies with poetry.' -
Hard, Strange Lives of Loners
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 May 2008; (p. 14)
— Review of God of Speed 2008 single work novel -
A New Pilot for Hygiene Genie
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19-20 April 2008; (p. 30-31)
— Review of God of Speed 2008 single work novel -
The Spellbinder
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 300 2008; (p. 23-24)
— Review of God of Speed 2008 single work novel -
The Recluse and the Novelist
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 5 April 2008; (p. 21)
— Review of God of Speed 2008 single work novel
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[Review] God of Speed
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , February vol. 87 no. 6 2008; (p. 37)
— Review of God of Speed 2008 single work novel -
Reflections of a Drug-Addicted Tycoon
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 March 2008; (p. 12)
— Review of God of Speed 2008 single work novel -
Speed Freak
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , April vol. 3 no. 3 2008; (p. 6)
— Review of God of Speed 2008 single work novel -
Life of a High-Flyer
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 5 April 2008; (p. 14)
— Review of God of Speed 2008 single work novel -
The Recluse and the Novelist
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 5 April 2008; (p. 21)
— Review of God of Speed 2008 single work novel -
You Did Not Read Faulkner!
Sophie Cunningham
(interviewer),
2008
single work
interview
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 67 no. 2 2008; (p. 110-119) 'Sophie Cunningham talks to Luke Davies about his shifting between forms - and finds his heart still lies with poetry.'
Awards
- 2010 longlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
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