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  • Author:agent Luke Davies http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/davies-luke
Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 God of Speed
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'Howard Hughes was one of the strangest and most significant figures of the twentieth century: aviator, film mogul, serial womaniser, billionaire, political meddler, drug addict, recluse. His obsessive-compulsive disorder would end up crippling and isolating him; in the end he self-medicated his way into oblivion.

'In the last years of Hughes' life, feeling his power ebb, bedridden and hopelessly addicted to drugs, he lays out and lays bare his history. He loops and reloops the past on a seemingly endless reel in his head as he spirals into madness and disconnection. In stops and starts, his life unfolds and gradually we see the shape and preoccupations of the twentieth century emerging from his ruined psyche - a world of oil, money, planes, flight, movies, drugs, sex, neurosis, fear - a world where paranoia reigns.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Launched at Paperchain, Manuka, Australian Capital Territory, 10 April 2008.

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia

    Type of disability Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
    Type of character Primary.
    Point of view First person.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2008 .
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      • Published January 2008
      ISBN: 9781741143508 (pbk.)
    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2010 .
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      Extent: 288p.
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      • Published May 17th 2010
      ISBN: 9781741757606
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      Rare Bird Books ,
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      Extent: 289p.
      Note/s:
      • Published August 16th 2014
      ISBN: 9781940207575
Alternative title: Toujours plus vite
Language: French

Works about this Work

You Did Not Read Faulkner! Sophie Cunningham (interviewer), 2008 single work interview
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 67 no. 2 2008; (p. 110-119)
'Sophie Cunningham talks to Luke Davies about his shifting between forms - and finds his heart still lies with poetry.'
Hard, Strange Lives of Loners Stephen Saunders , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 May 2008; (p. 14)

— Review of God of Speed Luke Davies , 2008 single work novel
A New Pilot for Hygiene Genie Malcolm Knox , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19-20 April 2008; (p. 30-31)

— Review of God of Speed Luke Davies , 2008 single work novel
The Spellbinder Brian McFarlane , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 300 2008; (p. 23-24)

— Review of God of Speed Luke Davies , 2008 single work novel
The Recluse and the Novelist Peter Craven , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 5 April 2008; (p. 21)

— Review of God of Speed Luke Davies , 2008 single work novel
[Review] God of Speed Lachlan Jobbins , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , February vol. 87 no. 6 2008; (p. 37)

— Review of God of Speed Luke Davies , 2008 single work novel
Reflections of a Drug-Addicted Tycoon Michael Wilding , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 March 2008; (p. 12)

— Review of God of Speed Luke Davies , 2008 single work novel
Speed Freak Peter Porter , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , April vol. 3 no. 3 2008; (p. 6)

— Review of God of Speed Luke Davies , 2008 single work novel
Life of a High-Flyer Patrick Allington , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 5 April 2008; (p. 14)

— Review of God of Speed Luke Davies , 2008 single work novel
The Recluse and the Novelist Peter Craven , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 5 April 2008; (p. 21)

— Review of God of Speed Luke Davies , 2008 single work novel
You Did Not Read Faulkner! Sophie Cunningham (interviewer), 2008 single work interview
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 67 no. 2 2008; (p. 110-119)
'Sophie Cunningham talks to Luke Davies about his shifting between forms - and finds his heart still lies with poetry.'
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