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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Challenge
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'Fast-paced Australian political fiction, Challenge unfolds over three days in an atmosphere of treachery and deceit, amid a looming federal leadership challenge.

'Opposition leader Daniel Slattery is the Holden Caulfield of Australian politics. He's a former sporting hero from the wrong side of the tracks, politically principled and courageous, but also personally unhinged and highly volatile. He is attempting to stand the political moral high ground while trying to fight for his job—and a rearguard action against the phantoms of his dark past. Who is working to trash his reputation and derail his one tilt at the prime ministership? And is it actually real—or just demons inside his head?

'Blistering and blackly comic, Challenge puts us into the shoes of a man whose life is slipping away as he confronts the abyss of modern Australian politics. ' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Peter Fray and Katie Pollock – supporters, collaborators, friends

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Carlton, Parkville - Carlton area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Melbourne University Press , 2014 .
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      Extent: 279p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 October 2014
      ISBN: 9780522860535

Works about this Work

[Review] Challenge Michael McGuire , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 10 January 2015; (p. 26)

— Review of Challenge Paul Daley , 2014 single work
Australian Fiction Ed Wright , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11-12 October 2014; (p. 21)

— Review of The Mandarin Code Steve Lewis , Chris Uhlmann , 2014 single work novel ; Challenge Paul Daley , 2014 single work ; This Tattooed Land Derek Parker , 2014 single work novel
Daley Digs Deep 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 28 September 2014; (p. 26)

— Review of Challenge Paul Daley , 2014 single work
The Facts and Fictions of the Political Life Tom Decent , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 28 September 2014; (p. 16)

— Review of Challenge Paul Daley , 2014 single work
The Facts and Fictions of the Political Life Tom Decent , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 28 September 2014; (p. 16)

— Review of Challenge Paul Daley , 2014 single work
Daley Digs Deep 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 28 September 2014; (p. 26)

— Review of Challenge Paul Daley , 2014 single work
Australian Fiction Ed Wright , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11-12 October 2014; (p. 21)

— Review of The Mandarin Code Steve Lewis , Chris Uhlmann , 2014 single work novel ; Challenge Paul Daley , 2014 single work ; This Tattooed Land Derek Parker , 2014 single work novel
[Review] Challenge Michael McGuire , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 10 January 2015; (p. 26)

— Review of Challenge Paul Daley , 2014 single work
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