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Contemporary fiction reviews: December 2013

By Catherine Robertson In Books

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28th November, 2013
The cover copy for Mark Lamprell’s THE FULL RIDICULOUS (Text, $37) aptly summarises it as: “Middle class loser makes good.” When Michael O’Dell is hit by a car, his life, already crumbling at the edges, begins to disintegrate at pace. O’Dell’s quiet desperation becomes markedly higher-pitched as he has to deal with a daughter up for assault, a son who keeps a drug stash, his resounding lack of writing success and his fear the universe may never finish beating him with the humility stick. There are some ...

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