‘Wilding’s writing is rich in humour, fantasy and sharp social observation.’ Bruce Bennett, Contemporary Novelists
‘He is so exhilaratingly adept with narrative you cannot put the book down . . . Wilding’s pen is sharp as a rapier.’ Jan Meek, Vogue Australia
‘If, like most of us, you’ve begun to sense that life is not quite so simple, then maybe Wilding is exactly who you should be reading.’ David English, Weekend Australian
‘Wilding has steadily produced, for over thirty years, work of high and lasting merit . . . To be a writer like Wilding is to be whole in a sense that should never be lost, not as long as the written word appears between the pages of a literary book.’ Don Graham, Antipodes 2
Superfluous Men
Kew
:
Arcadia
,
2009
Z1610689
2009
single work
novel
humour
'Henry, Pawley and Dr Bee from Academia Nuts have taken early retirement. But what awaits them? Does anything? Pawley buys a dacha high in the Valley of the Weed. Dr Bee cruises the shopping malls. Henry is lured by the Director of the Writers' Centre to be her Chair. Vistas of arts bureaucracies lie all before them.' (Back cover.)
