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Alternative title: R & R
Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 R&R
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'Full of lacerating dialogue and typically sharp character portraits, R&R tells the story of US corporal John Ulysses Grant, aka Nashville, and his partner Shorty, an Australian military policeman, in the seaside resort of Vung Tau in South Vietnam, 1967. The Vietnam War rages across the country but Nashville's concerns are closer to home: how did a corpse, buried just days before, turn up in a local bar without any ears? Written with a brilliant, concise wit and brutal, uncompromising insight, R&R is a startlingly original portrait of men and war in the twilight zone behind the front, a searing study of the violence that we do to others, and ourselves.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2015 .
      image of person or book cover 404265886930317861.jpg
      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 271p.
      Note/s:
      • Published July 29, 2015
      ISBN: 9780670078202

Works about this Work

A Gigantically Obvious Wrong Thing Ali Alizadeh , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , March 2016;

— Review of R&R Mark Dapin , 2015 single work novel
The 10 Books You Must Read This Year Blanche Clark , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 3 October 2015; (p. 30)
Little Rest and Savage Recreation Simon Caterson , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24-25 October 2015; (p. 26) The Saturday Age , 24-25 October 2015; (p. 26)

— Review of R&R Mark Dapin , 2015 single work novel
Crime Scene : Mark Dapin R & R Bernard Whimpress , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , September 2015;

— Review of R&R Mark Dapin , 2015 single work novel
Well Read Margot Lloyd , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 15 August 2015; (p. 32)

— Review of R&R Mark Dapin , 2015 single work novel ; The Eyeball End Alister McKeich , 2015 single work prose
Time Out among the Vietnam War’s Loose Cannons 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8-9 August 2015; (p. 16)

— Review of R&R Mark Dapin , 2015 single work novel
Well Read Margot Lloyd , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 15 August 2015; (p. 32)

— Review of R&R Mark Dapin , 2015 single work novel ; The Eyeball End Alister McKeich , 2015 single work prose
Crime Scene : Mark Dapin R & R Bernard Whimpress , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , September 2015;

— Review of R&R Mark Dapin , 2015 single work novel
Little Rest and Savage Recreation Simon Caterson , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24-25 October 2015; (p. 26) The Saturday Age , 24-25 October 2015; (p. 26)

— Review of R&R Mark Dapin , 2015 single work novel
A Gigantically Obvious Wrong Thing Ali Alizadeh , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , March 2016;

— Review of R&R Mark Dapin , 2015 single work novel
The 10 Books You Must Read This Year Blanche Clark , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 3 October 2015; (p. 30)
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