y separately published work icon Night Parking single work   novel  
Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 Night Parking
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Dark Weight Katharine England , single work review
— Review of Night Parking Laurie Clancy , 1999 single work novel
Laurie Clancy as Novelist of the Secular City John McLaren , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 4 2014;

'Laurie Clancy is very much a writer of the modern secular city. Although he was brought up in a Catholic household, he had left the Church well before he left school. The world he describes in his fiction is a post-modern world, where there is no God to offer comfort or authority to offer meaning. Clancy approaches this world from a realist perspective, but his realism breaks down as his characters find their efforts to make sense or to find fulfilment break down into fragmentary episodes of frustration or futility. Indeed he published many of these individual scenes as separate short stories. Even in the novels the narratives tend to collapse into series of fragments, rather than follow any kind of progression towards unity. These fragments record the frustrated attempts of his characters to create a unity in their experience, or to bend the outer world to their desires. Their constant failures produce an absurdity that ranges from the farcical to the tragic. ' (Author's introduction)

A Critical Life : An Interview with Laurie Clancy Pradeep Trikha (interviewer), 2012 single work interview
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 26 no. 1 2012; (p. 94-98)
Self-Publish and be Damned, Sometimes Kevin Foster , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 6 February 2000; (p. 11)

— Review of Night Parking Laurie Clancy , 1999 single work novel
Sharp, Sad Stories Mark Thomas , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 23 October 1999; (p. 22)

— Review of Night Parking Laurie Clancy , 1999 single work novel
Sharp, Sad Stories Mark Thomas , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 23 October 1999; (p. 22)

— Review of Night Parking Laurie Clancy , 1999 single work novel
Dark Weight Katharine England , single work review
— Review of Night Parking Laurie Clancy , 1999 single work novel
Self-Publish and be Damned, Sometimes Kevin Foster , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 6 February 2000; (p. 11)

— Review of Night Parking Laurie Clancy , 1999 single work novel
A Critical Life : An Interview with Laurie Clancy Pradeep Trikha (interviewer), 2012 single work interview
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 26 no. 1 2012; (p. 94-98)
Laurie Clancy as Novelist of the Secular City John McLaren , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 4 2014;

'Laurie Clancy is very much a writer of the modern secular city. Although he was brought up in a Catholic household, he had left the Church well before he left school. The world he describes in his fiction is a post-modern world, where there is no God to offer comfort or authority to offer meaning. Clancy approaches this world from a realist perspective, but his realism breaks down as his characters find their efforts to make sense or to find fulfilment break down into fragmentary episodes of frustration or futility. Indeed he published many of these individual scenes as separate short stories. Even in the novels the narratives tend to collapse into series of fragments, rather than follow any kind of progression towards unity. These fragments record the frustrated attempts of his characters to create a unity in their experience, or to bend the outer world to their desires. Their constant failures produce an absurdity that ranges from the farcical to the tragic. ' (Author's introduction)

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