'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.
