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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Almost Sincerely
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'When Zoë Norton Lodge was growing up in Annandale in the eighties and nineties, the self-proclaimed Heartland of the Inner West was a heady brew of somewhat maladjusted and genuinely unsettling residents. But Annandale was changing. New words like ‘architect’ and ‘labradoodle’ drifted out of the overabundance of cafés – and eventually entire weeks would go by with no backyard bomb explosions.

'These stories of neighbourhood warfare, unsound relations, quashed dreams and facial disfigurement are told with Norton Lodge’s characteristic comic verve and eye for absurdity: encounter Greek grandparents whose decades-long resentment turns a colander into a weapon; a petrol-sodden Mamma; children sent to school with cat-food sandwiches; ‘distressed’ furniture; flying babies and other suburban wonders. ' (Publication summary)

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    y separately published work icon Best Australian Comedy Writing Luke Ryan (editor), South Melbourne : Affirm Press , 2015 9113553 2015 anthology prose short story humour

    'Editor and comedian Luke Ryan has wrangled 24 of Australia’s finest comedy writers and rolled them into a single book of comedy gold. If there’s been a more impressive assembly of funny people in any Australian book ever, you can have your money back.' (Publication summary)

    South Melbourne : Affirm Press , 2015
    pg. 29-43
    • Artarmon, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Giramondo Publishing , 2015 .
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      Extent: 208p.
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      • Published 1st June 2015
      ISBN: 9781922146854

Works about this Work

Zoe Norton Lodge : Almost Sincerely Ashley Kalagian Blunt , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , January 2016;

— Review of Almost Sincerely Zoë Norton Lodge , 2015 selected work short story
Jessica Yu Reviews Almost Sincerely by Zoe-Norton Lodge Jessica Yu , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , October no. 18 2015;

— Review of Almost Sincerely Zoë Norton Lodge , 2015 selected work short story
When Family Matters Provide a Comic Blessing Emma Young , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29 August 2015; (p. 25)

— Review of Almost Sincerely Zoë Norton Lodge , 2015 selected work short story
When Family Matters Provide a Comic Blessing Emma Young , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29 August 2015; (p. 25)

— Review of Almost Sincerely Zoë Norton Lodge , 2015 selected work short story
Jessica Yu Reviews Almost Sincerely by Zoe-Norton Lodge Jessica Yu , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , October no. 18 2015;

— Review of Almost Sincerely Zoë Norton Lodge , 2015 selected work short story
Zoe Norton Lodge : Almost Sincerely Ashley Kalagian Blunt , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , January 2016;

— Review of Almost Sincerely Zoë Norton Lodge , 2015 selected work short story
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