Speaking of Robert Drewe this may interest Perth listees.
University of Western Australia Press Club and the Institute of Advanced
Studies takes pleasure in inviting you to meet
BRUCE BENNETT, ROBERT DREWE, SUSAN HAYES, ELIZABETH JOLLEY, ARCHIE WELLER
AND TERRI-ANN WHITE.
Professor Bruce Bennett will lead a panel discussion on the short story
collection 'Home and Away: Australian Stories of Belonging and Alienation'
edited by Bruce Bennett and Susan Hayes
5.30pm - 7.30pm
Friday 6 October 2000
at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
The University of Western Australia
Nedlands
parking off Fairway Entrance 1
light refreshments will be served
door charge of $5 to members, $10 non-members
>From: Clayton Hansen <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Perth, Australia
>Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 07:40:14 +1000
>
>I heard Robert Drewe speak about the book at the Melbourne Writers'
>Festival
>- some very funny and chilling anecdotes from his early days in Fremantle
>(I
>think) - I'm trying to read The Drowner at the moment but work is getting
>in
>the road...The Savage Crows...his first novel, I enjoyed immensely.
>
>
>Clayton
>
>
>Douglas Clark wrote:
>
> > Joyce Carol Oates reviews Robert Drewe's 'The Shark Net: Memories and
> > Murder' in the current New York REview of Books. This is a memoir of
> > childhood and coming-of-age in Perth by an Australian novelist.
> > I thought it might interest listees. The time period seems to be
>50s/60s.
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