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' Dr Julius Newton is a world-famous biographer who specialises in the lives of composers. His latest project is on the famously secretive French composer Maurice Ravel, and he is thrilled when a young man, Charles Joseph Pym, contacts him to tell him that he has discovered some exciting material relating to Ravel's life: a letter, a photo, and a new, wonderful sonata, Le Gouffre, or The Abyss, which will revolutionise the public view of Ravel the man as well as the composer. But all is not as it seems--and in a novel which twists and turns on itself, friend soon turns foe: bluff and double bluff succeed each other--just who is hoaxing who?' (Sophie Masson).
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Epigraph: He is awkward and weak now, who once ruled the air!Comically ugly, yet once past compare! Tormented with fire by one in the crew, While another mimes, limping, he who once flew! L'Albatros, Charles Baudelaire. Translation by Sophie Masson.
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Musical Mystery Delights
1998
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— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 12 no. 1 1998; (p. 51-52)
— Review of The Hoax 1997 single work novel -
Purloined Letters
1997
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— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , Spring vol. 9 no. 2-3 1997; (p. 32-33)
— Review of The Hoax 1997 single work novel -
Ravelled Fortunes
1997
single work
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— Appears in: Quadrant , November vol. 41 no. 11 1997; (p. 84-85)
— Review of The Hoax 1997 single work novel -
A Musical Hoax
1997
single work
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 194 1997; (p. 32)
— Review of The Hoax 1997 single work novel -
Satire of a Winner
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 27 September 1997; (p. 15)
— Review of The Hoax 1997 single work novel ; The Blindman's Hat 1997 single work novel
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Fiction Without Psychology
1997
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 23 August 1997; (p. wkd 9)
— Review of The Hoax 1997 single work novel -
Satire Bounces Back
1997
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30-31 August 1997; (p. rev 7)
— Review of The Hoax 1997 single work novel ; The Blindman's Hat 1997 single work novel -
Whose Lie is It Anyway?
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6 September 1997; (p. 10s)
— Review of The Hoax 1997 single work novel -
Satire of a Winner
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 27 September 1997; (p. 15)
— Review of The Hoax 1997 single work novel ; The Blindman's Hat 1997 single work novel -
A Musical Hoax
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 194 1997; (p. 32)
— Review of The Hoax 1997 single work novel -
Hoax Just a Coincidence
1997
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correspondence
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 29 August 1997; (p. 17)
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