Blanche D'Alpuget
Bruce Grant reviews 'Hawke: The prime minister' by Blanche d’Alpuget
Bruce Grant
Wednesday, 01 September 2010
Needless to say, yet needing to be said, Australia’s twenty-third prime minister, R.J.L. Hawke, emerges from this interesting, sometimes engrossing yet disconcerting book smelling like roses. When MUP decided to publish, it must have seemed like a good idea. Deployed on television, Bob and Blanche were a marketing dream. But the result has a fatal flaw; it neither enlarges Hawke as a political leader nor advances d’Alpuget as a writer.
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Published in
September 2010, no. 324
Alan Gould reviews 'Homesickness' by Murray Bail and 'Monkeys in the Dark' by Blanche d’Alpuget
Alan Gould
Wednesday, 01 October 1980
I found Murray Bail’s novel Homesickness a work of brilliant and resonant artistry, which despite many unlikely incidents, succeeds in being thoroughly credible in all its parts. It is also a desolating book, a comedy, but a very black one.
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Published in
October 1980, no. 25