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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Fear of Tennis
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'An anxious sighting marks the reappearance of high-school friend Jason Bunt in Mike Planner's ordered life as a courtroom sound-recordist. Mike is a cool obsessive - an avid spectator of criminal trials and a connoisseur of restrooms, both public and domestic. A lighthouse-related disaster in Year Ten has left him with a debt to Jason. Jason has meanwhile taken up tennis with evangelical zeal, and Mike seizes on this in an ill-advised attempt to wipe the slate clean. Further complications arise when Mike's Bible-reading co-worker Fiona introduces him to the Old Testament, and he grapples with questions of guilt, redemption, the Patriarch Abraham, and former Wimbledon champion Pete Sampras... a novel about the impossibility of avoiding sport. - (back cover)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Ruth and Gerald Cohen

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Black Pepper , 2007 .
      Extent: 202p.
      Description: port.
      ISBN: 1876044551, 9781876044558

Works about this Work

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
A Short Tour Through the Independents Ben Peek , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 191 2008; (p. 85-87)

— Review of Fear of Tennis David Cohen , 2007 single work novel ; Personal Taxidermy Stuart Forsyth , 2007 single work novel ; Cock : Adventures in Masculinity 2006 anthology short story ; The Sleepers Almanac No. 4 2008 anthology short story poetry ; The Ascension of Phoebus Klein Ivana Hruba , 2008 single work novel
Untitled Louise Swinn , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 299 2008; (p. 22)

— Review of Fear of Tennis David Cohen , 2007 single work novel
Off the Shelf : Parody Owen Richardson , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 29 September 2007; (p. 28)

— Review of Fear of Tennis David Cohen , 2007 single work novel
Off the Shelf : Parody Owen Richardson , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 29 September 2007; (p. 28)

— Review of Fear of Tennis David Cohen , 2007 single work novel
Untitled Louise Swinn , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 299 2008; (p. 22)

— Review of Fear of Tennis David Cohen , 2007 single work novel
A Short Tour Through the Independents Ben Peek , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 191 2008; (p. 85-87)

— Review of Fear of Tennis David Cohen , 2007 single work novel ; Personal Taxidermy Stuart Forsyth , 2007 single work novel ; Cock : Adventures in Masculinity 2006 anthology short story ; The Sleepers Almanac No. 4 2008 anthology short story poetry ; The Ascension of Phoebus Klein Ivana Hruba , 2008 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
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