'This ebook brings together two of Lurie's novels, the comic "Rappaport", which focused on a day in the life of a young Melbourne antique dealer and his immature friend, Friedlander...' (Publication summary)
'Why can't life be as simple as a Chippendale chair? For Rappaport, antique dealer, magazine fanatic, cake eater extraordinaire, it is anything but. A girl he hardly knows decides to marry him, his best friend Friedlander is giving up his prince of a job in advertising to paint some obscure Greek island, there's not a single Marx Brothers movie showing in the whole of Melbourne ... will Rappaport live through the day? If it wasn't so funny, it'd be desperate, but funny it is, though peeping round the edges of this one wild day in Rappaport's life is a penetrating picture of young people today.'
Source: Publisher's blurb (1977 Angus and Robertson edition)
'In 'Rappaport's Revenge', his third novel and the sequel to 'Rappaport', Lurie transports Friedlander from Toorak to London, establishes him as a husband and father, as a non-painting artist who earns his bread by writing blurbs for unsellable books, and as a prisoner of foreign circumstances who longs for some kind of release through the lunatic company of his youth. He wants Rap.
When Rappaport arrives a new comedy of illusion and reality is sparked off, and a sensitive and sympathetic insight into the nature of human relationships is the result.'
Source:
Pettigrove, Malcolm. 'Ego and Alter Ego', Canberra Times, 15 September 1973, p.13.
