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Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 The Dead Heart
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form y separately published work icon Welcome to Woop Woop Douglas Kennedy , Michael Thomas , ( dir. Stephan Elliott ) Australia United Kingdom (UK) : Unthank Films Scala Productions , 1997 Z1806191 1997 single work film/TV humour crime A con artist escapes a deal gone wrong in New York and winds up in the Aussie outback in a strange town whose inhabitants are an oddball collection of misfits.

Notes

  • Dedication: For Max Kennedy.
  • Epigraph: 'The lonely man in a strange environment is naturally fearful.' (from Stay Alive by Maurice Dunleavy: an Australian government handbook on outback survival).
  • Adapted for the 1998 film Welcome to Woop Woop directed by Stephan Elliott.

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    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Little, Brown ,       1994 .
      Extent: 199p.
      ISBN: 0316909475
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Works about this Work

Imaginary Conquests of Australia Paul Longley Arthur , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 61 1999; (p. 136-142)
Cover Notes Jane Gillard , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Mercury , 10 July 1995; (p. 22)
— Review of The Dead Heart Douglas Kennedy , 1994 single work novel
A Picaresque Ride with a Shrewd Innocent Morag Fraser , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8 April 1995; (p. 11A)
— Review of My Own Sweet Time Wanda Koolmatrie , 1994 single work novel ; The Dead Heart Douglas Kennedy , 1994 single work novel
A Picaresque Ride with a Shrewd Innocent Morag Fraser , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8 April 1995; (p. 11A)
— Review of My Own Sweet Time Wanda Koolmatrie , 1994 single work novel ; The Dead Heart Douglas Kennedy , 1994 single work novel
Cover Notes Jane Gillard , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Mercury , 10 July 1995; (p. 22)
— Review of The Dead Heart Douglas Kennedy , 1994 single work novel
Imaginary Conquests of Australia Paul Longley Arthur , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 61 1999; (p. 136-142)
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Subjects:
  • Australian Outback, Central Australia,
Settings:
  • Darwin, Darwin area, Northern Territory,
  • Western Australia,
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