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Born: Established: Prahran, South Yarra - Glen Iris area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria, ;
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1 1 y separately published work icon Three Cheers for Civilization Peter Lyssiotis , Prahran : Champion Books , 1985 Z1239978 1985 single work short story humour

“A book of four photo-narratives including: The Great Wall of Australia, The Betrayal, The Fall and Three Cheers for Civilisation. Australian Lyssiotis uses his own photographs, photomontage, and writings in this humorous collection of four short stories. The Great Wall of Australia tells about a brick wall running across the southeastern part of the country. The Fall relates the author’s struggle with his own photography. Three Cheers for Civilization shows us what happens when a bird and an airplane collide. Betrayed grapples with the relationship between truth, reality, and representation.” (Source: Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive website)
1 y separately published work icon The Book of Slab Ted Hopkins , Prahran : Champion Books , 1983 Z1004826 1983 selected work poetry non-fiction
1 3 y separately published work icon The Woman Who Lives Here and Other Stories Gary Catalano , Prahran : Champion Books , 1983 Z548449 1983 selected work short story
1 2 y separately published work icon Bill's Break 'Alistair Skelton' , Prahran : Champion Books , 1983 Z509986 1983 single work novel 'Rational vision does not exist in the mind of Bill Wyatt. Not impressed by the expectations of his academic father and snobbish mother, he went his own way to become...an artist. He and his city-born wife moved to a 'utopian' farmlet at Ithaca...an experience of isolated frustration and hopelessness. While the well he built failed to draw water, his tomato crop died in the heat, his pet dog killed the geese, Bill began an affair with the local art teacher after an exhibition of his paintings at the Municipal Library.Then... (Backcover)
1 y separately published work icon The Yallourn Stories Ted Hopkins , Slab , Prahran : Champion Books , 1982 Z1004819 1982 single work non-fiction
1 1 y separately published work icon Journey of a Wise Electron ... But She Could Sing and Dance Too (Stirring Stories for Girls)and This Little Man Went to Work Peter Lyssiotis , Prahran : Champion Books , 1981 Z826640 1981 selected work single work prose

'A collection of three short stories combining the art of photomontage, and writing to produce a humourous and ironic look at life in the modern world. "Journey of a Wise Electron" is a story about obsessive TV viewing habits. ". . . But She Could Sing and Dance Too (Stirring Stories for Girls)" relates the life of a young woman coming to terms with her acting career. "And This Little Man Went to Work" uses photomontage to portray the dangers of blind obsession with work in an industrial world.' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon List Finder Teledex Ted Hopkins , Prahran : Champion Books , 1980 Z1004822 1980 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Who's Taking You to the Dance? Sally Morrison , Prahran : Champion Books , 1979 Z302611 1979 single work novel
1 3 y separately published work icon Feral Palit : a novel in four parts Robin Wallace-Crabbe , Prahran : Champion Books , 1978 Z99341 1978 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon The Coals of Juniper : A Novel Graham Jackson , Prahran : Champion Books , 1977 Z1017677 1977 single work novel
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