| Description |
336 pages ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Get Reading 2012
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| Summary |
This is a vivid and compelling narrative of middle class friends and families, relationships and the contemporary workplace. Kate and Hugh Drysdale like many couples buy a house that stretches them to the limits financially. Hugh looks at the soaring property market, the fact he's earning a good salary, and all the signs of a booming economy and believes everything will be fine. And it is, until the advertising company he works for hits a rough patch: two major pieces of business walk out of the door, and a new creative director from the UK is brought in. Set in Sydney when world economic instability is beginning to bite, this is avery much a book of our time. Peopled with unforgettable characters it is a disturbing, but affecting portrait of family, the workplace, and the costs of playing, or not playing the game. In this novel, the author brings his witty, razor-sharp vision to human nature, life in suburbia and the moral dilemmas that face us all |
| Analysis |
Australian |
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Australian fiction |
| Notes |
A novel |
| Audience |
General |
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Tertiary/Undergraduate |
| Subject |
'The Nib' Waverley Library Award for Literature Nominations (2012)
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Australian fiction -- 21st century.
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Australian fiction.
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Middle class -- Australia -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
Sydney (N.S.W.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021855
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Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111545
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| Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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Fiction.
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| LC no. |
2012427253 |
| ISBN |
9781921924187 (paperback) |
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