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Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 The Chelsea Manifesto : A Novel
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Ben Wallymacher has always struggled to keep up with Francis. Friends from childhood, their lives diverge as they battle with the big questions - relationships, fathering, the limits of spontaneity, the usefulness of seventies obsessions like the 'human potential movement' - until they're drawn together again by Francis's elusive daughter, Piaf.

This ironic comic novel flits from the past to the present, weaving a tale of life's journey with some pretty interesting pit stops - geodesic domes, psychodrama and gurus, armed robbery and prison, New York and Fremantle, the Chelsea Hotel and Adele's B & B.

It's about an ordinary man trying not to make too much of a wally of himself.

Notes

  • Dedication: For Alena.
  • Epigraph: You then will awaken as radical freedom, and sing those songs of radiant release, beam an infinity too obvious to see, and drink an ocean of delight. Ken Wilber.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • North Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 1999 .
      Extent: 287p.
      ISBN: 1863682635

Works about this Work

Acts of Noticing : A Consideration of Some Recent Australian Fiction Carmel MacDonald-Grahame , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 45 no. 2000; (p. 23-36)

— Review of The Red Heart Rosie Scott , 1999 selected work essay autobiography ; Untold Tales David Malouf , 1999 selected work short story ; Dream Stuff David Malouf , 2000 selected work short story ; Blue : A Novel Ken Spillman , 1999 single work novel ; Freedom Highway Nigel Krauth , 1999 single work novel ; The Chelsea Manifesto : A Novel Bruce L. Russell , 1999 single work novel ; Painted Words 1999 anthology short story poetry ; Liv : A Novel Morgan Yasbincek , 2000 single work novel ; Hidden from View Richard Harland , 1999 single work novel ; Benang : From the Heart Kim Scott , 1999 single work novel ; Drylands : A Book for the World's Last Reader Thea Astley , 1999 single work novel ; An Accommodating Spouse Elizabeth Jolley , 1999 single work novel ; Neap Tide Dorothy Hewett , 1999 single work novel ; Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop Amy Witting , 1999 single work novel ; Poe's Cat Brenda Walker , 1999 single work novel ; Playing Madame Mao Lau Siew Mei , 2000 single work novel ; The Hunter Julia Leigh , 1999 single work novel ; The Australian Fiance Simone Lazaroo , 2000 single work novel
Fiction : Two Men Follow Dreams Jo Salas , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 14 no. 1 2000; (p. 69-70)

— Review of The Chelsea Manifesto : A Novel Bruce L. Russell , 1999 single work novel
Manifesto Andrew Peek , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 215 1999; (p. 32-33)

— Review of The Chelsea Manifesto : A Novel Bruce L. Russell , 1999 single work novel
Distaff Side of Plato Murray Waldren , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4-5 September 1999; (p. 14)

— Review of Republic of Women Merrill Findlay , 1999 single work novel ; Dogs Are Barking Mark Taylor , 1999 single work novel ; Keep Your Hands on the Wheel Kathryn Heyman , 1999 single work novel ; The Chelsea Manifesto : A Novel Bruce L. Russell , 1999 single work novel
Distaff Side of Plato Murray Waldren , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4-5 September 1999; (p. 14)

— Review of Republic of Women Merrill Findlay , 1999 single work novel ; Dogs Are Barking Mark Taylor , 1999 single work novel ; Keep Your Hands on the Wheel Kathryn Heyman , 1999 single work novel ; The Chelsea Manifesto : A Novel Bruce L. Russell , 1999 single work novel
Manifesto Andrew Peek , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 215 1999; (p. 32-33)

— Review of The Chelsea Manifesto : A Novel Bruce L. Russell , 1999 single work novel
Fiction : Two Men Follow Dreams Jo Salas , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 14 no. 1 2000; (p. 69-70)

— Review of The Chelsea Manifesto : A Novel Bruce L. Russell , 1999 single work novel
Acts of Noticing : A Consideration of Some Recent Australian Fiction Carmel MacDonald-Grahame , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 45 no. 2000; (p. 23-36)

— Review of The Red Heart Rosie Scott , 1999 selected work essay autobiography ; Untold Tales David Malouf , 1999 selected work short story ; Dream Stuff David Malouf , 2000 selected work short story ; Blue : A Novel Ken Spillman , 1999 single work novel ; Freedom Highway Nigel Krauth , 1999 single work novel ; The Chelsea Manifesto : A Novel Bruce L. Russell , 1999 single work novel ; Painted Words 1999 anthology short story poetry ; Liv : A Novel Morgan Yasbincek , 2000 single work novel ; Hidden from View Richard Harland , 1999 single work novel ; Benang : From the Heart Kim Scott , 1999 single work novel ; Drylands : A Book for the World's Last Reader Thea Astley , 1999 single work novel ; An Accommodating Spouse Elizabeth Jolley , 1999 single work novel ; Neap Tide Dorothy Hewett , 1999 single work novel ; Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop Amy Witting , 1999 single work novel ; Poe's Cat Brenda Walker , 1999 single work novel ; Playing Madame Mao Lau Siew Mei , 2000 single work novel ; The Hunter Julia Leigh , 1999 single work novel ; The Australian Fiance Simone Lazaroo , 2000 single work novel
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  • Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,
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