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Wake in Fright (Film Ink)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • The australian heart of darkness
  • Australian classic
Wake in Fright (Film Ink)
Kenneth Cook
Manufacturer: Prion
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 185375482X

Book Description

First published in 1961, this grueling, hallucinatory tale was adapted for the screen in 1971 as The Outback, starring Donald Pleasance.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars The australian heart of darkness.......2005-03-16

ive always been fascinated by this story ,the economy of language used
is very dry ,very australian. If there is a more australian book ive yet to find it .Something that has always interested me , when the books main
character Grant? keeps getting horribly pissed and waking up to
extraordaniary hangovers, on the second morning he complains of
some terrible thing that has happened to him during his sleep apart
from the obvious hangover, is it being suggested that the character played
(very well) by donald plesanse? has molested grant somehow during his
sleep? Does anybody else see this, it seems something very disturbing
happened and ive always wondered?

4 out of 5 stars Australian classic.......2003-03-08

Something like a transposition of Flann O'Brien's 'The Third Policeman' to rural Australia, Kenneth Cook's brilliantly agonizing novel is a study of young male paralysis and redemption. Few novels capture the sheer horror of outback isolation and the madness it inspires, but Cook manages it beautifully. The 'two-up' scene will be with you forever. This is a forgotten classic of Australian literature, mainly because it has been out of print for many years. Thanks to Text Publishing in Melbourne for resurrecting it - Text is one of the few publishing houses that seems to be taking an intelligent interest in Australian literature these days.
Wake in Fright
Average customer rating: Not rated
    Wake in Fright
    Kenneth Cook
    Manufacturer: Angus & Robertson
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Hardcover
    ASIN: B000OEDB1M
    Wake In Fright
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      Wake In Fright
      Kenneth Cook
      Manufacturer: Angus & Robertson
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Hardcover
      ASIN: B000QRV8N0
      Great Australian Writers: I Can Jump Puddles; Wake In Fright; The Fringe Dwellers; The Breaker
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        Great Australian Writers: I Can Jump Puddles; Wake In Fright; The Fringe Dwellers; The Breaker
        Kenneth Cook, Nene Gare, Kit Denton Alan Marshall
        Manufacturer: William Heinemann
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Hardcover
        ASIN: 0706432517
        Wake in Fright
        Average customer rating: Not rated
          Wake in Fright
          Kenneth Cook
          Manufacturer: Penguin
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Paperback
          ASIN: B000MGOT2C

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