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Trapped by Their Own Defences

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August 2004, no. 263

The Last Love Story by Rodney Hall

Picador, $22 pb, 256 pp

Trapped by Their Own Defences

by
August 2004, no. 263

There is often a speculative dimension to Rodney Hall’s fiction. Throughout his long career, he has tended to build his novels around alternative histories or unusual possibilities. Past works have imagined scenarios as diverse as Adolf Hitler arriving on the south coast of New South Wales and (where does he get his ideas?) Australia becoming a republic. The Last Love Story is in some respects unrepresentative of Hall’s vivid and expansive body of work. Compared to some of his earlier novels, it is concise and the natural flamboyance of his writing seems a little subdued. The novel does, however, develop from a typically interesting ‘what if?’

The Last Love Story

The Last Love Story

by Rodney Hall

Picador, $22 pb, 256 pp

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