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TOPIC: Richard Flanagan
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posted 03-04-2008 14:04

 
This guy is very good.

I'm halfway through his most recent book, The Unknown Terrorist, a story about terrorism in placid metropolitan Sydney, and it's excellent. He's very skilled at writing about weighty matters with a deceptively light touch.

He's written a lot of stuff for the Guardian in the past about the environmental rape of Tasmania.
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#5956
posted 03-04-2008 15:19

 
Getting no replies, I can handle. But getting not one single page view, at all??

Bastards.

Anyway, check Flanagan out, he's great.
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posted 03-04-2008 23:47

 
I'll chime in. I've not read the Unknown Terrorist, but have raved to all and sundry about two of his earlier books: Gould's Book of Fish and Death of a River Guide. Probably two of my favourite modern Australian novels.

He also wrote a brilliant piece of polemic about the destruction of Tasmania's forests that left me feeling depressed and hopeless. (edit - as I see now you've already touched on)
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