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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Comfort Zone
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'An astute novel about inner-city Australian racism - and about humanity emerging in the face of reality.

'Jack van Duyn is in his comfort zone. A pot-bellied, unfit, round-shouldered cabbie in his mid-fifties, he lives on his own and on the edges of society. He has a few mates, who he regards contentedly as losers and nobodies like himself, and lots of opinions about all the bastards out there who get more than they deserve.

'One morning, as he's waiting for a fare, he notices a handful of dark-skinned children romping in the playground, and finds himself muttering Bloody Somalis. Why can't they stay in their own shithole of a country?

'Jack can't know it, but his world is about to be turned upside down. After reluctantly breaking up a fight between the children, Jack finds himself transfixed by the mother of one of them - a beautiful young Somali woman - and feeling compelled to help her. What follows is a bewildering, hair-raising descent into a world of drug-dealing, ASIO harassment, criminal thuggery, and Somali payback.

'If Jack is to rise to the challenge, redemption might involve him leaving his comfort zone behind - forever.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Dedication: for my mother, Maree

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Brunswick, Brunswick - Coburg area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Scribe , 2016 .
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      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 240p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date: 27 January 2016
      ISBN: 9781925321029

Works about this Work

Review : Comfort Zone Grant Hansen , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Good Reading , May 2016; (p. 42)

— Review of Comfort Zone Lindsay Tanner , 2016 single work novel
In Absentia Joel Deane , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 382 2016; (p. 49)

— Review of Comfort Zone Lindsay Tanner , 2016 single work novel
Lament with a Light Touch for the Magic of the Inner City Michael McGirr , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19-20 March 2016; (p. 25) The Saturday Age , 19-20 March 2016; (p. 25)

— Review of Comfort Zone Lindsay Tanner , 2016 single work novel
Lament with a Light Touch for the Magic of the Inner City Michael McGirr , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19-20 March 2016; (p. 25) The Saturday Age , 19-20 March 2016; (p. 25)

— Review of Comfort Zone Lindsay Tanner , 2016 single work novel
In Absentia Joel Deane , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 382 2016; (p. 49)

— Review of Comfort Zone Lindsay Tanner , 2016 single work novel
Review : Comfort Zone Grant Hansen , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Good Reading , May 2016; (p. 42)

— Review of Comfort Zone Lindsay Tanner , 2016 single work novel
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