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'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.)

Notes

  • Booked launched in Melbourne at the Melbourne Writers' Festival, August 2009.
  • Dedication: To Irina Dunn

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Kew, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Arcadia , 2009 .
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      Extent: 337p.
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      • Published December 31st 2009
      ISBN: 9781921509476, 1921509473
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Balmain Boy Tells Tales Irina Dunn , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , January-February vol. 54 no. 1-2 2010; (p. 102-103)
— Review of Superfluous Men Michael Wilding , 2009 single work novel
In Short : Fiction Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20-21 February 2010; (p. 30)
— Review of Kiss of Death P. D. Martin , 2010 single work novel ; Superfluous Men Michael Wilding , 2009 single work novel
Michael Wilding's Superfluous Men Maria Arena , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Perilous Adventures , vol. 10 no. 1 2010;
— Review of Superfluous Men Michael Wilding , 2009 single work novel
Restless Times in Retirement Brian Keenan , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 24 no. 2 2010; (p. 207)
— Review of Superfluous Men Michael Wilding , 2009 single work novel
That Odd Notion of Throwing a Party for People Who Prefer to Be Alone, Writing Ross Fitzgerald , 2012 single work column
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