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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Wood Green
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'Michael, an aspiring writer who has recently finished his PhD, takes a job as the secretary to his literary hero, Lucian Clarke, a reclusive novelist with a mysterious cosmopolitan past, who lives in a cottage in a village on a mountain outside Hobart which gives the book its title, Wood Green. Peopled by an ensemble cast, the local publican, the single mother who manages the pub’s kitchen, the unhappily married couple that runs the corner store, a newcomer from Johannesburg with a murky past, a snivelling B&B proprietor and a determined ex-girlfriend, Wood Green artfully evokes the claustrophobia of small-town life. While Michael believes he is making a new life for himself, Lucian has other plans. Rabin writes with wit and intelligence – and deftly executes an unsuspected plot twist – in his exploration of the perils of literary ambition and the elusive prospect of artistic legacy.' (Source: Publisher's website)

Notes

  • Dedication: To Francesca and Jude

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Artarmon, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Giramondo Publishing , 2016 .
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      Extent: 256p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 June 2016
      ISBN: 9781925336085
    • Derbyshire,
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      England,
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      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Dodo Ink ,
      2016 .
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      Extent: 364p.p.
      ISBN: 9780993575815, 0993575811
    • Lidcombe, Auburn - Homebush area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,: Booktopia Editions , 2021 .
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      Extent: 325p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 5th October 2021
      ISBN: 9781922598523

Other Formats

  • Also large print.

Works about this Work

Daniela Brozek Cordier Reviews Wood Green by Sean Rabin Daniela Brozek Cordier , 2019 single work
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , August 2019;

— Review of Wood Green Sean Rabin , 2016 single work novel
Delving into the Literary Recluse’s Domain Dominic Amerena , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 August 2016; (p. 25)

— Review of Wood Green Sean Rabin , 2016 single work novel ; The Last Days of Ava Langdon Mark O'Flynn , 2016 single work novel
Literary Intrigue in a Portrait of Hobart Peter Pierce , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2 July 2016; (p. 20)

— Review of Wood Green Sean Rabin , 2016 single work novel
Wood Green Review : Incisive Portrait of Hobart with No Escaped Convicts or Tasmanian Tigers Peter Pierce , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 1 July 2016;

— Review of Wood Green Sean Rabin , 2016 single work novel
,Sean Rabin's first novel, Wood Green, is at once a brilliantly sustained comic performance, an anatomy of a small community halfway up a brooding mountainside, an imagining of the processes of making fiction and their human costs. ...'
Sean Rabin, Wood Green LS , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 25 June 2016;

— Review of Wood Green Sean Rabin , 2016 single work novel
Sean Rabin, Wood Green LS , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 25 June 2016;

— Review of Wood Green Sean Rabin , 2016 single work novel
Wood Green Review : Incisive Portrait of Hobart with No Escaped Convicts or Tasmanian Tigers Peter Pierce , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 1 July 2016;

— Review of Wood Green Sean Rabin , 2016 single work novel
,Sean Rabin's first novel, Wood Green, is at once a brilliantly sustained comic performance, an anatomy of a small community halfway up a brooding mountainside, an imagining of the processes of making fiction and their human costs. ...'
Literary Intrigue in a Portrait of Hobart Peter Pierce , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2 July 2016; (p. 20)

— Review of Wood Green Sean Rabin , 2016 single work novel
Delving into the Literary Recluse’s Domain Dominic Amerena , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 August 2016; (p. 25)

— Review of Wood Green Sean Rabin , 2016 single work novel ; The Last Days of Ava Langdon Mark O'Flynn , 2016 single work novel
The Writers We Deserve Shannon Burns , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , October 2016;

— Review of Their Brilliant Careers : The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers Ryan O'Neill , 2016 selected work short story ; Wood Green Sean Rabin , 2016 single work novel
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