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The Spellbinder

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April 2008, no. 300

God of Speed by Luke Davies

Allen & Unwin, $32.95 pb, 304 pp

The Spellbinder

by
April 2008, no. 300

The title is presumably meant to be ambiguous. Not only did the protagonist, Howard Hughes, hurtle round the world in aeroplanes of his own devising, and not only did he ingest amphetamines at a rate that would finish most of us, but there is also a sense of his crashing non-stop through life itself. And 'speed', he tells us in Luke Davies' remarkable new novel, ‘shouldered some of the weight for me ... helped me maintain control over a bucking project, since, control, ultimately, is all there is.’

God of Speed

God of Speed

by Luke Davies

Allen & Unwin, $32.95 pb, 304 pp

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