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y separately published work icon Rohypnol single work   novel  
Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Rohypnol
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'The New Punk is not about moving towards the future. It is about your life right now, impatiently standing still.

Fact: Bad people do bad things.
In the new age of money, drugs and instant satisfaction, you make your own rules. You take what you want, you don't ask. There is no responsibility. There is no guilt. If someone burns you, you should do the same to them. It's an issue of equality.'
Hutchinson 'portrays a disturbing reality in which cold and disillusioned youths assault the comfortable middle-class world around them'. Rohypnol 'examines the mind of a self-made monster - and questions the direction of modern life.' (Publisher's blurb)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 2006
    • Milsons Point, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Vintage Australia , 2007 .
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      Extent: 246p.
      ISBN: 9781741668223

Works about this Work

Untitled Hugh Rayner , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 22 no. 1 2008; (p. 58-59)

— Review of Rohypnol Andrew Hutchinson , 2006 single work novel
Untitled Emmett Stinson , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Wet Ink , Summer no. 13 2008; (p. 71)

— Review of Rohypnol Andrew Hutchinson , 2006 single work novel
The Year's Work in Fiction : 2007-2008 Roger Bourke , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 53 no. 2008; (p. 50-58)

— Review of From : The Time We Have Taken Steven Carroll , 2007 extract novel ; Prime Cuts Angus Gaunt , 2008 selected work short story ; The Best Australian Stories 2007 2007 anthology short story extract autobiography ; The Trout Opera Matthew Condon , 2007 single work novel ; Fear of Tennis David Cohen , 2007 single work novel ; The Complete Stories David Malouf , 2007 selected work short story ; Redfin Anthony Lynch , 2007 selected work short story ; Rohypnol Andrew Hutchinson , 2006 single work novel ; Breath Tim Winton , 2008 single work novel ; The Last Sky Alice Nelson , 2008 single work novel ; Landscape of Farewell Alex Miller , 2007 single work novel ; A History of the Beanbag : And Other Stories Susan Midalia , 2007 selected work short story ; Dead Birds Trevor Shearston , 2007 single work novel ; Secrets of the Sea Nicholas Shakespeare , 2007 single work novel ; Other Country Stephen Scourfield , 2007 single work novel ; The Low Road Chris Womersley , 2007 single work novel ; Lilia's Secret Erina Reddan , 2007 single work novel
In Brief : Fiction Tali Polichtuk , 2007-2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January no. 297 2007-2008; (p. 35)

— Review of Rohypnol Andrew Hutchinson , 2006 single work novel
The Secret World of Lies Karen Lamb , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , December vol. 2 no. 12 2007; (p. 20-21)

— Review of The Anatomy of Wings Karen Foxlee , 2006 single work novel ; Lilia's Secret Erina Reddan , 2007 single work novel ; Rohypnol Andrew Hutchinson , 2006 single work novel ; The Zookeeper's War Steven Conte , 2007 single work novel
Tenuous Tale of Teenage Rapists Wallows in Gore and Gutter Language Daniel Stacey , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18-19 August 2007; (p. 10-11)

— Review of Rohypnol Andrew Hutchinson , 2006 single work novel
Sex, Drugs and Rohypnol Louise Swinn , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18-19 August 2007; (p. 32-33)

— Review of Rohypnol Andrew Hutchinson , 2006 single work novel
In the Zone Barry Oakley , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 25 September vol. 125 no. 6588 2007; (p. 93)

— Review of Other Country Stephen Scourfield , 2007 single work novel ; Rohypnol Andrew Hutchinson , 2006 single work novel ; The River Baptists Belinda Castles , 2006 single work novel
This Week's Selections Patrick Allington , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 29 September 2007; (p. 12)

— Review of Rohypnol Andrew Hutchinson , 2006 single work novel
Specialty Offerings Sate Hunger for Meaty Reads Sara Dowse , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 13 October 2007; (p. 14)

— Review of Rohypnol Andrew Hutchinson , 2006 single work novel
Violence Is Golden Erik Jensen , 2007 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4-5 August 2007; (p. 30-31)
The Face : Andrew Hutchinson : Novelist Cath Hart , 2007 single work biography
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 20-21 October 2007; (p. 3)
y separately published work icon (Re-)Examining Blank Fiction : Sex, Narcissism and Disconnection in Australia and the United States Tobias McCorkell , Melbourne : 1990 12990269 1990 single work thesis

'(Re-)Examining Blank Fiction: Sex, Narcissism and Disconnection in Australia and the United States analyses works of ‘Blank Fiction’ from Australia and the United States within a selection of novels, including: Less Than Zero (1985) by Bret Easton Ellis, Loaded (1995) by Christos Tsiolkas, Rohypnol (2007) by Andrew Hutchinson, The Delivery Man (2008) by Joe McGinniss Jr., and Snake Bite (2014) by Christie Thompson. It examines the use of images drawn from celebrity and lifestyle magazines, music videos, advertising, pornography, television, and Hollywood cinema and argues that these novels co-opt images of mass culture in an effort to critique contemporary social practices, values, and lifestyle. Additionally, this dissertation provides an excerpt of a novel entitled Barely Anything. Barely Anything, like other Blank Fiction novels, details the social practices of a small group of young adults, addressing themes of sex, boredom and privilege on both sides of Melbourne’s Yarra River.'

Source: Abstract.

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