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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 In-Human
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'In-human is a snarling, glittering creation, a funny, yet disturbing story of transformation set in Oatlands, Tasmania. The irrepressible Sally Hunter is turning into a werewolf. As a string of killings takes place we are drawn into her sensual, visceral and highly charged world. The way she embraces her change into a powerful beast challenges us to confront our own lusts and capacities for violence, while the small town setting and the people in Sally's world ring with a disarming truth.

Dusk's bone-deep understanding of her characters, and the chilling narrative set in motion a complex fugue of memory and confrontation that builds to a shattering climax. Described as a cross between Catcher in the Rye and Buffy, this is a heady mix of horror and reality. Dark, poignant and oddly affecting, In-human is destined to make waves and attract fans.' (From the publisher's website.)

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Notes

  • Dedication: For Lisa Mary, Eddie and Leroy

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Yarraville, Footscray - Maribyrnong area, Melbourne - West, Melbourne, Victoria,: Transit Lounge , 2010 .
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      Extent: 288p.
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      • Published April 1st 2010
      ISBN: 9780980571738 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

In the Slipstream Jenny Green , 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , November 2015;
The Silver Age of Fiction Peter Pierce , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 70 no. 4 2011; (p. 110-115)

‘In human reckoning, Golden Ages are always already in the past. The Greek poet Hesiod, in Works and Days, posited Five Ages of Mankind: Golden, Silver, Bronze, Heroic and Iron (Ovid made do with four). Writing in the Romantic period, Thomas Love Peacock (author of such now almost forgotten novels as Nightmare Abbey, 1818) defined The Four Ages of Poetry (1820) in which their order was Iron, Gold, Silver and Bronze. To the Golden Age, in their archaic greatness, belonged Homer and Aeschylus. The Silver Age, following it, was less original, but nevertheless 'the age of civilised life'. The main issue of Peacock's thesis was the famous response that he elicited from his friend Shelley - Defence of Poetry (1821).’ (Publication abstract)

Hype, Hairy, Horny, Hope Gillian Dooley , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , May vol. 5 no. 4 2010; (p. 19)

— Review of Beautiful Malice Rebecca James , 2010 single work novel ; In-Human Anna Dusk , 2010 single work novel ; Love Machine Clint Caward , 2010 single work novel ; The Legacy Kirsten Tranter , 2010 single work novel
Off the Shelf : Fiction Owen Richardson , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 1 May 2010; (p. 30)

— Review of In-Human Anna Dusk , 2010 single work novel
Untitled Paula Grunseit , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , March vol. 89 no. 6 2010; (p. 35)

— Review of In-Human Anna Dusk , 2010 single work novel
Untitled Paula Grunseit , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , March vol. 89 no. 6 2010; (p. 35)

— Review of In-Human Anna Dusk , 2010 single work novel
Off the Shelf : Fiction Owen Richardson , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 1 May 2010; (p. 30)

— Review of In-Human Anna Dusk , 2010 single work novel
Hype, Hairy, Horny, Hope Gillian Dooley , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , May vol. 5 no. 4 2010; (p. 19)

— Review of Beautiful Malice Rebecca James , 2010 single work novel ; In-Human Anna Dusk , 2010 single work novel ; Love Machine Clint Caward , 2010 single work novel ; The Legacy Kirsten Tranter , 2010 single work novel
The Silver Age of Fiction Peter Pierce , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 70 no. 4 2011; (p. 110-115)

‘In human reckoning, Golden Ages are always already in the past. The Greek poet Hesiod, in Works and Days, posited Five Ages of Mankind: Golden, Silver, Bronze, Heroic and Iron (Ovid made do with four). Writing in the Romantic period, Thomas Love Peacock (author of such now almost forgotten novels as Nightmare Abbey, 1818) defined The Four Ages of Poetry (1820) in which their order was Iron, Gold, Silver and Bronze. To the Golden Age, in their archaic greatness, belonged Homer and Aeschylus. The Silver Age, following it, was less original, but nevertheless 'the age of civilised life'. The main issue of Peacock's thesis was the famous response that he elicited from his friend Shelley - Defence of Poetry (1821).’ (Publication abstract)

In the Slipstream Jenny Green , 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , November 2015;
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