Big Boys
Second Back Row Press 1978, ISBN O 9093 2512 X
Neonline
Second Back Row Press 1978, ISBN 0 909325 13 8
Unspectacular prose
Of these two unspectacular books from Second Back Row Press I found Tom Thompson’s Neonline the more rewarding.
It is a book that resists easy identification, being neither a novella nor a sequence of related short stories, and possessing neither a total scheme nor a clutch of subplots, no climax and no emergent theme. There is however a focusing eye, and this restively pursues a loose family of characters around a credible Sydney landscape, which in the closing pages moves via Singapore and Java to Bali.
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