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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Man in a Grey Suit
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'Glenn Orgias was surfing at Bondi Beach at twilight when he was attacked by a shark - a 'man in a grey suit', as surfers call them. When it let him go, he thought his life was over. As the blood washed over his board, he looked to the shore 80 metres away - 80 metres to paddle with one hand, and a few minutes of strength, and a shark to avoid. All he could think about was his wife, Lisa, who was five months pregnant. But this is more than a story of a shark attack - it's Glenn's life as a surfer, his battle with anger and anxiety growing up, the love story of his meeting and marrying Lisa, his recovery from the attack, the birth of his beautiful daughter, and finally his determination to get back into surfing despite everything he'd been through' (Libraries Australia).

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    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Viking , 2012 .
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      Extent: 273p.
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      • Published: 2nd July 2012
      ISBN: 0670076058 (pbk)

Works about this Work

Demon Monsters or Misunderstood Casualties? Writing about Sharks in Australia Donna Lee Brien , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: M/C Journal , vol. 24 no. 5 2021;

'Over the past century, many books for general readers have styled sharks as “monsters of the deep” (Steele). In recent decades, however, at least some writers have also turned to representing how sharks are seriously threatened by human activities. At a time when media coverage of shark sightings seems ever increasing in Australia, scholarship has begun to consider people’s attitudes to sharks and how these are formed, investigating the representation of sharks (Peschak; Ostrovski et al.) in films (Le Busque and Litchfield; Neff; Schwanebeck), newspaper reports (Muter et al.), and social media (Le Busque et al., “An Analysis”). My own research into representations of surfing and sharks in Australian writing (Brien) has, however, revealed that, although reporting of shark sightings and human-shark interactions are prominent in the news, and sharks function as vivid and commanding images and metaphors in art and writing (Ellis; Westbrook et al.), little scholarship has investigated their representation in Australian books published for a general readership.' (Introduction)

Pick of the Week Fiona Capp , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 28 July 2012; (p. 30) The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 July 2012; (p. 33)

— Review of Man in a Grey Suit Glenn Orgias , 2012 single work autobiography
Shark Attack's Victim a Beautiful Tale of Terror Jack Marx , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 July 2012; (p. 31)

— Review of Man in a Grey Suit Glenn Orgias , 2012 single work autobiography
Shark Attack's Victim a Beautiful Tale of Terror Jack Marx , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 July 2012; (p. 31)

— Review of Man in a Grey Suit Glenn Orgias , 2012 single work autobiography
Pick of the Week Fiona Capp , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 28 July 2012; (p. 30) The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 July 2012; (p. 33)

— Review of Man in a Grey Suit Glenn Orgias , 2012 single work autobiography
Demon Monsters or Misunderstood Casualties? Writing about Sharks in Australia Donna Lee Brien , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: M/C Journal , vol. 24 no. 5 2021;

'Over the past century, many books for general readers have styled sharks as “monsters of the deep” (Steele). In recent decades, however, at least some writers have also turned to representing how sharks are seriously threatened by human activities. At a time when media coverage of shark sightings seems ever increasing in Australia, scholarship has begun to consider people’s attitudes to sharks and how these are formed, investigating the representation of sharks (Peschak; Ostrovski et al.) in films (Le Busque and Litchfield; Neff; Schwanebeck), newspaper reports (Muter et al.), and social media (Le Busque et al., “An Analysis”). My own research into representations of surfing and sharks in Australian writing (Brien) has, however, revealed that, although reporting of shark sightings and human-shark interactions are prominent in the news, and sharks function as vivid and commanding images and metaphors in art and writing (Ellis; Westbrook et al.), little scholarship has investigated their representation in Australian books published for a general readership.' (Introduction)

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