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Is part of Dog Rock Trilogy David Foster , 1985 series - author (number 2 in series)
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Cover subtitle: Further Adventures of Dog Rock's Postal Detective D'Arcy D'Oliveres
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1988 .
      Extent: 129p.
      ISBN: 0140109307
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The Life and Opinions of D’Arcy D’Oliveres, Letter’d Gentleman James Ley , 2013 single work biography
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 134 2013; (p. 65-70) 'Providing a detailed account of the early, and indeed the late, life of D'Arcy D'Oliveres - author, apiarist, amateur sleuth, alleged amputee, larrikin aristocrat, renaissance postman - presents the prospective biographer with a number of problems. For it is not only the case that the readily available details of D'Oliveres's life are incomplete, sketchy and, at times, contradictory: the primary source of information about his background and his exploits is D'Oliveres himself. And he is an idiosyncratic character, to say the least. His opinions are unusual in many respects. His autobiographical writings - such as they are - are by no means comprehensive and contain much that is questionable, if not deeply implausible. A genial sort of bloke, he is always willing to give visitors guided tours of the small town of Dog Rock - 'a trivial town, where nothing ever happens which is not essentially trivial' - where he spent many years in the employ of Australia Post. It must be said, however, that he is not always the most reliable of guides. For a period in the 1980s, he tried (unsuccessfully) to maintain the fiction among his fellow Dog Rockers that one of his arms had been amputated above the elbow. And when, in late-1996, rumours began to circulate that D'Oliveres, who is known to be partial to a smoke, had succumbed to cancer in the small town of Obliqua Creek in Far Eastern Gippsland, the rumours were not only greatly exaggerated; it turned out he started them.' (Publication abstract)
Boundary Crossing: The Novels of David Foster Narelle Shaw , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 16 no. 1 1993; (p. 38-49)
The Passion of D'Arcy D'Oliveres: David Foster's "Dog Rock" Novels Narelle Shaw , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , Spring vol. 4 no. 1 1990; (p. 29-34)
Untitled Andrew Peek , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 80)
— Review of The Pale Blue Crochet Coathanger Cover David Foster , 1988 single work novel
From the Outrageous to the Densely Funny Jeff Doyle , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 21 January 1989; (p. B4)
— Review of The Earth is Hollow Dimitris Tzoumacas , 1988 selected work prose ; The Pale Blue Crochet Coathanger Cover David Foster , 1988 single work novel
Another Bite at Dog Rock Helen Daniel , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 30 July, 1988; (p. 14)
— Review of The Pale Blue Crochet Coathanger Cover David Foster , 1988 single work novel
Paperbacks Penelope Nelson , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 12-13 November 1988; (p. 9)
— Review of The Pale Blue Crochet Coathanger Cover David Foster , 1988 single work novel ; The Man Who Stayed Below Alan Gould , 1984 single work novel
Respectable, but They Fail to Shine A. P. Riemer , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 30 July, 1988; (p. 77)
— Review of The Pale Blue Crochet Coathanger Cover David Foster , 1988 single work novel
Sleuth Sorts Out the Mail of the Species Dorothy Porter , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30-31 July, 1988; (p. 15)
— Review of The Pale Blue Crochet Coathanger Cover David Foster , 1988 single work novel
From the Outrageous to the Densely Funny Jeff Doyle , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 21 January 1989; (p. B4)
— Review of The Earth is Hollow Dimitris Tzoumacas , 1988 selected work prose ; The Pale Blue Crochet Coathanger Cover David Foster , 1988 single work novel
The Passion of D'Arcy D'Oliveres: David Foster's "Dog Rock" Novels Narelle Shaw , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , Spring vol. 4 no. 1 1990; (p. 29-34)
Boundary Crossing: The Novels of David Foster Narelle Shaw , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 16 no. 1 1993; (p. 38-49)
The Life and Opinions of D’Arcy D’Oliveres, Letter’d Gentleman James Ley , 2013 single work biography
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 134 2013; (p. 65-70) 'Providing a detailed account of the early, and indeed the late, life of D'Arcy D'Oliveres - author, apiarist, amateur sleuth, alleged amputee, larrikin aristocrat, renaissance postman - presents the prospective biographer with a number of problems. For it is not only the case that the readily available details of D'Oliveres's life are incomplete, sketchy and, at times, contradictory: the primary source of information about his background and his exploits is D'Oliveres himself. And he is an idiosyncratic character, to say the least. His opinions are unusual in many respects. His autobiographical writings - such as they are - are by no means comprehensive and contain much that is questionable, if not deeply implausible. A genial sort of bloke, he is always willing to give visitors guided tours of the small town of Dog Rock - 'a trivial town, where nothing ever happens which is not essentially trivial' - where he spent many years in the employ of Australia Post. It must be said, however, that he is not always the most reliable of guides. For a period in the 1980s, he tried (unsuccessfully) to maintain the fiction among his fellow Dog Rockers that one of his arms had been amputated above the elbow. And when, in late-1996, rumours began to circulate that D'Oliveres, who is known to be partial to a smoke, had succumbed to cancer in the small town of Obliqua Creek in Far Eastern Gippsland, the rumours were not only greatly exaggerated; it turned out he started them.' (Publication abstract)
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