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This Is How tells the story of Patrick Oxtoby, an outsider longing to fit in. When his fiancé Sarah breaks off their engagement, Patrick leaves home and moves to a boarding house in a seaside village a few hours away. In spite of his hopes for a new and better life, Patrick struggles to make friends or make the right impression. He can't shake the feeling that his new acquaintances are conspiring against him, further fracturing his fragile personality and prompting him to take a course of action that alters the course of his life. (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Reading Group Guide available through the Text Publishing website.
  • Dedication: For Julian Owen
  • Epigraph: 'Everything unconditional belongs in pathology.' Nietzsche

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Text Publishing , 2009 .
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      Extent: 377p.
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      • Published 29 June 2009
      ISBN: 9781921520532
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      Extent: 377p.
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      • Publication date 08 July 2009
      ISBN: 9780802170620, 0802170625
    • Edinburgh,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Canongate ,       2009 .
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      Extent: 376p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date 02 July 2009
      ISBN: 1847673821, 9781847673824
Alternative title: Dit Is Echt
Language: Dutch
    • Amsterdam,
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      Netherlands,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Mouria ,       2010 .
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      Extent: 366p.
      Note/s:
      • Published October 12th 2009
      ISBN: 9789045801377
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This Is How David Tredinnick , 2010 single work drama 'Patrick, a young motor mechanic, escapes to an English seaside village to lick his wounds after a relationship break-up. However, he soon discovers that his demons have followed him, and he will end up doing a very, very bad thing. This is How traces the journey of a man through Britain's criminal justice system in the late 1960s. It's a waking nightmare where fantasy and reality co-exist.' (Melbourne Theatre Company website)
'I Could Put My Head in Her Lap, or the Other Way Round' M. J. Hyland , 2010 extract novel (This Is How)
— Appears in: The Age , 7 January 2010; (p. 14)
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Page Turners Gillian Dooley , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , January no. 359 2010; (p. 27)
[Review] This Is How Robert Lumsden , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 2 no. 1 2009;
— Review of This Is How M. J. Hyland , 2009 single work novel
'Love Me or Leave Me' Is Blindness Jane Sullivan , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 19 September 2009; (p. 28) Jane Sullivan comments on some unlikeable characters in Australian and international novels.
[Review] This Is How Katie Horner , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , July vol. 88 no. 9 2009; (p. 34)
— Review of This Is How M. J. Hyland , 2009 single work novel
Date with Disaster Ross Southernwood , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 16 August 2009; (p. 13)
— Review of This Is How M. J. Hyland , 2009 single work novel
[Review] This Is How Katharine England , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 27 June 2009; (p. 27)
— Review of This Is How M. J. Hyland , 2009 single work novel
Review of the Week Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 28 June 2009; (p. 24)
— Review of This Is How M. J. Hyland , 2009 single work novel
Criminal Minds Madeline Healy , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 4 - 5 July 2009; (p. 20-21)
— Review of This Is How M. J. Hyland , 2009 single work novel
Simple and Sympathetic Portrait of an Outsider Delia Falconer , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11-12 July 2009; (p. 26-27)
— Review of This Is How M. J. Hyland , 2009 single work novel
Daydream Believer Rebecca Starford , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 313 2009; (p. 12-13)
— Review of This Is How M. J. Hyland , 2009 single work novel
Telling It Like It Is Alyssa Mcdonald , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 27-28 June 2009; (p. 10-11)
Talent for Lying Persuasively Tom Adair , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4-5 July 2009; (p. 26-27) The Age , 4 July 2009; (p. 24-25)
'Love Me or Leave Me' Is Blindness Jane Sullivan , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 19 September 2009; (p. 28) Jane Sullivan comments on some unlikeable characters in Australian and international novels.
Page Turners Gillian Dooley , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , January no. 359 2010; (p. 27)
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Host Jennifer Byrne joins regular panelists Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger, and guests David Marr and Di Morriseey to discuss and review the novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Australian novel, This Is How by M.J. Hyland.
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