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Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 Lime Bar
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'What's a forty-something salesman of made-in-Asia trinkets to do when he comes adrift from the safe moorings of marriage and washes up in the Lime Bar? It's to the Lime Bar, where Gustave the barman dispenses gin and advice with Gallic savoir faire, that Matt Condon's hapless salesman always returns after every misadventure of the heart. Dallying past midnight in a Gold Coast hotel pool, reclaiming his masculinity with the mountain men, sampling the bars and bedrooms of the Sydney scene and losing himself in a fairytale France - the choices are frequently disastrous, the cost of wisdom often too high. And the final adventure is the most unexpected of all. A deliciously witty and bittersweet portrait of a man looking for love in all the wrong places by the award - winning author of The Pillow Fight.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Novel originally published as short stories in The Adelaide Review from 1997-2001

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2001 .
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      Extent: 262p.
      ISBN: 0141000856

Works about this Work

Men Behaving Sadly Katharine England , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 12 January 2002; (p. 19)

— Review of World of Chickens Nick Earls , 2001 single work novel ; Lime Bar Matthew Condon , 2001 single work novel
Journeys of Many Lifetimes Judith White , 2001-2002 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 18 December - 8 January vol. 119 no. 6306 2001-2002; (p. 106-107)

— Review of Four Fires Bryce Courtenay , 2001 single work novel ; Lime Bar Matthew Condon , 2001 single work novel ; World of Chickens Nick Earls , 2001 single work novel ; Room Temperature Cath Kenneally , 2001 single work novel
Authors Offer Escapism in Light Summer Reading Peter Pierce , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 15 December 2001; (p. 17)

— Review of Lime Bar Matthew Condon , 2001 single work novel
A Writer Aims to Lift the Bar Jane Sullivan , 2001 single work biography
— Appears in: The Age , 1 December 2001; (p. 7)
From Bon Vivants to the Torture Chamber Michael Sharkey , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 1-2 December 2001; (p. [8]-9)

— Review of Lime Bar Matthew Condon , 2001 single work novel
Beer-Mat Profundities Cath Hart , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 10 November 2001; (p. 7)

— Review of Lime Bar Matthew Condon , 2001 single work novel
Pithy, with a Twist Peter Pierce , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17-18 November 2001; (p. 13)

— Review of Lime Bar Matthew Condon , 2001 single work novel
From Bon Vivants to the Torture Chamber Michael Sharkey , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 1-2 December 2001; (p. [8]-9)

— Review of Lime Bar Matthew Condon , 2001 single work novel
Authors Offer Escapism in Light Summer Reading Peter Pierce , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 15 December 2001; (p. 17)

— Review of Lime Bar Matthew Condon , 2001 single work novel
Journeys of Many Lifetimes Judith White , 2001-2002 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 18 December - 8 January vol. 119 no. 6306 2001-2002; (p. 106-107)

— Review of Four Fires Bryce Courtenay , 2001 single work novel ; Lime Bar Matthew Condon , 2001 single work novel ; World of Chickens Nick Earls , 2001 single work novel ; Room Temperature Cath Kenneally , 2001 single work novel
A Writer Aims to Lift the Bar Jane Sullivan , 2001 single work biography
— Appears in: The Age , 1 December 2001; (p. 7)
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