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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Snake Bite
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'Goon of Fortune is one of those games that people cracked out at parties when everyone is already too maggot to realise what a pointless game it is. A bunch of people circle the Hills Hoist and you peg a bladder of cheap wine to the line. People take turns spinning the clothes line and whoever the wine sack lands in front of has to scull for five seconds.

'Jez is seventeen and lives with her alcoholic single mum in in a government rental in Canberra's outer-suburbs, with little money or future prospects. As well as suffering from terminal boredom, Jez has got epic First World Problems: where is her next pill coming from, what will her first tattoo be, and how will she ever lose her virginity?

'Recently Jez has been having weird feelings about her best friend, emo kid Lukey - is she just bored or does she really want him? And if she makes a move on him (how to make a move on him?), will that endanger their friendship? So when effervescent hipster Melbournite Laura moves to town and starts macking on with Lukey, what is Jez to do but seek guidance from sexually experienced next-door-neighbour stripper, Casey? At the same time, Jez's mum hooks up with a local bartender, placing a strain on their already fragile relationship.

'Over the course of one blazing summer, Jez runs a gauntlet of new experiences and discovers the real meaning of home. Filled with humour, brilliant observations and raw revelations, Snake Bite is a contemporary Puberty Blues, the coming-of-age story of a wild teenager in a Canberra you never dreamed existed. It will sink its fangs into, inject you with its intoxicating venom, and never let you go.' (Publisher's blurb)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2013 .
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      Extent: 319p.
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      • Published: August 2013
      ISBN: 9781743316863 (paperback)

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  • Also large print.

Works about this Work

A World Without Books – Or Kindle? Words Simply Fail Me Peter Goers , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 17 November vol. 17 November no. 2013; (p. 86)
[Untitled] Cameron Woodhead , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19 October 2013; (p. 32)

— Review of Burned Persephone Nicholas , 2013 single work novel ; Snake Bite Christie Thompson , 2013 single work novel ; The Full Ridiculous Mark Lamprell , 2013 single work novel
Reality Bites on Outskirts Karen Hardy , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 25 August 2013; (p. 26)

— Review of Snake Bite Christie Thompson , 2013 single work novel
Fiction Mirrors Fact of Youth Struggles in ACT Suburbs Hamish Boland-Rudder , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 August 2013; (p. 4)
y separately published work icon (Re-)Examining Blank Fiction : Sex, Narcissism and Disconnection in Australia and the United States Tobias McCorkell , Melbourne : 1990 12990269 1990 single work thesis

'(Re-)Examining Blank Fiction: Sex, Narcissism and Disconnection in Australia and the United States analyses works of ‘Blank Fiction’ from Australia and the United States within a selection of novels, including: Less Than Zero (1985) by Bret Easton Ellis, Loaded (1995) by Christos Tsiolkas, Rohypnol (2007) by Andrew Hutchinson, The Delivery Man (2008) by Joe McGinniss Jr., and Snake Bite (2014) by Christie Thompson. It examines the use of images drawn from celebrity and lifestyle magazines, music videos, advertising, pornography, television, and Hollywood cinema and argues that these novels co-opt images of mass culture in an effort to critique contemporary social practices, values, and lifestyle. Additionally, this dissertation provides an excerpt of a novel entitled Barely Anything. Barely Anything, like other Blank Fiction novels, details the social practices of a small group of young adults, addressing themes of sex, boredom and privilege on both sides of Melbourne’s Yarra River.'

Source: Abstract.

Reality Bites on Outskirts Karen Hardy , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 25 August 2013; (p. 26)

— Review of Snake Bite Christie Thompson , 2013 single work novel
[Untitled] Cameron Woodhead , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19 October 2013; (p. 32)

— Review of Burned Persephone Nicholas , 2013 single work novel ; Snake Bite Christie Thompson , 2013 single work novel ; The Full Ridiculous Mark Lamprell , 2013 single work novel
Fiction Mirrors Fact of Youth Struggles in ACT Suburbs Hamish Boland-Rudder , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 August 2013; (p. 4)
A World Without Books – Or Kindle? Words Simply Fail Me Peter Goers , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 17 November vol. 17 November no. 2013; (p. 86)
y separately published work icon (Re-)Examining Blank Fiction : Sex, Narcissism and Disconnection in Australia and the United States Tobias McCorkell , Melbourne : 1990 12990269 1990 single work thesis

'(Re-)Examining Blank Fiction: Sex, Narcissism and Disconnection in Australia and the United States analyses works of ‘Blank Fiction’ from Australia and the United States within a selection of novels, including: Less Than Zero (1985) by Bret Easton Ellis, Loaded (1995) by Christos Tsiolkas, Rohypnol (2007) by Andrew Hutchinson, The Delivery Man (2008) by Joe McGinniss Jr., and Snake Bite (2014) by Christie Thompson. It examines the use of images drawn from celebrity and lifestyle magazines, music videos, advertising, pornography, television, and Hollywood cinema and argues that these novels co-opt images of mass culture in an effort to critique contemporary social practices, values, and lifestyle. Additionally, this dissertation provides an excerpt of a novel entitled Barely Anything. Barely Anything, like other Blank Fiction novels, details the social practices of a small group of young adults, addressing themes of sex, boredom and privilege on both sides of Melbourne’s Yarra River.'

Source: Abstract.

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