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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Holy Water
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'A mordant, ruefully funny novel about downsizing, outsourcing, globalization,  third-world dictatorships, and vasectomies, by the acclaimed author of The Futurist and Adland.
'Henry Tuhoe is the quintessential twenty-first-century man. He has a vague, well-compensated job working for a multinational  conglomerate—but everyone around him is getting laid off as the company outsources everything it can to third-world countries.
'He has a beautiful wife—his college  sweetheart—and an idyllic new home in the leafy suburbs, complete with pool. But his wife won’t let him touch her, even though she demanded he get a vasectomy; he’s seriously overleveraged on the mortgage; and no matter what chemicals he tries the pool remains a corpselike shade of ghastly green.' (Publication summary)

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    • Crawley, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: UWA Publishing , 2010 .
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      Extent: 292p.
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      • Published June 15th 2010
      ISBN: 9781742582665 (pbk.)

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Works about this Work

Fiction Alice Nelson , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 9 October 2010; (p. 21)

— Review of Holy Water James P. Othmer , 2010 single work novel
Fiction Cameron Woodhead , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 28 August 2010; (p. 24)

— Review of Holy Water James P. Othmer , 2010 single work novel ; The Genesis Flaw L. A. Larkin , 2010 single work novel
Cover Notes Lucy Sussex , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 8 August 2010; (p. 21)

— Review of My Father's Daughter : Memories of an Australian Childhood Sheila Fitzpatrick , 2010 single work autobiography ; Holy Water James P. Othmer , 2010 single work novel ; Spinning Out Christine Darcas , 2010 single work novel
Cover Notes Lucy Sussex , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 8 August 2010; (p. 21)

— Review of My Father's Daughter : Memories of an Australian Childhood Sheila Fitzpatrick , 2010 single work autobiography ; Holy Water James P. Othmer , 2010 single work novel ; Spinning Out Christine Darcas , 2010 single work novel
Fiction Cameron Woodhead , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 28 August 2010; (p. 24)

— Review of Holy Water James P. Othmer , 2010 single work novel ; The Genesis Flaw L. A. Larkin , 2010 single work novel
Fiction Alice Nelson , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 9 October 2010; (p. 21)

— Review of Holy Water James P. Othmer , 2010 single work novel
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