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'An old friend, a best friend, a first love and the dreamer Neil Cronk who connects them all...
'Four schoolfriends are on the verge of adulthood and the next 12 hours will change the course of their lives... Friendships will be broken, virginity lost, love unleashed and secrets buried.
'A decade later, one is dead, one is famous, two are getting married, and the truth is about to erupt.
'Wildly funny, brutal, tender and true, How It Feels is a coming-of-age story set in Sydney's Sutherland Shire with stopovers in Bathurst and London. Brendan Cowell's electrifying debut novel is a devastating ode to youth, capturing the beauty of growing up by the beach, and the darkness which moves beneath its surface. Because this is how it feels.' (From the publisher's website.)
Notes
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Dedication: For Bart
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Epigraph:
Either you turn your back forever on those who have seen your youth,
or else you will admit its nakedness, and even shame has some
sweet melancholy.-Patrick White
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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How It Feels
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Inscribe , Winter no. 6 2012; (p. 4)
— Review of How It Feels 2010 single work novel -
Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 29 January 2011; (p. 25)
— Review of How It Feels 2010 single work novel -
Finding the Words in a Man's World
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 9 January 2011; (p. 7)
— Review of How It Feels 2010 single work novel -
In Art and Life
Paul Landymore
(interviewer),
2010
single work
interview
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , November vol. 90 no. 4 2010; (p. 46) -
Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , November vol. 90 no. 4 2010; (p. 38)
— Review of How It Feels 2010 single work novel
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He Knows How It Feels
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 30 - 31 October 2010; (p. 22)
— Review of How It Feels 2010 single work novel -
Reincarnation's Birthing Problems
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 November 2010; (p. 23) The Sydney Morning Herald , 20-21 November 2010; (p. 40)
— Review of Preincarnate 2010 single work novel ; How It Feels 2010 single work novel -
Review : Fiction
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 13 - 14 November 2010; (p. 22)
— Review of How It Feels 2010 single work novel -
Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , November vol. 90 no. 4 2010; (p. 38)
— Review of How It Feels 2010 single work novel -
Finding the Words in a Man's World
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 9 January 2011; (p. 7)
— Review of How It Feels 2010 single work novel -
Brendan Cowell
2010
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16-17 October 2010; (p. 34) -
The Bloke Stripped Bare
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 13-14 November 2010; (p. 25) Editor's note: 'The local version of lad lit exposes the secret erotic life of the Average Aussie male.' -
In Art and Life
Paul Landymore
(interviewer),
2010
single work
interview
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , November vol. 90 no. 4 2010; (p. 46)
Awards
- Sutherland area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,
- Bathurst, Bathurst area, Bathurst - Orange area, Central West NSW, New South Wales,
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London,
cEngland,ccUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,
- 1990s
- 2000s
