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'Some people say ‘West’ like it is something wrong, like ice-cream that fell in a gutter. I think West is like my brother’s music, too much bass so you end up dancing like your body parts don’t fit together and laughing all at the same time. That’s what West is: shiny cars and loud things, people coming, people going – movement. Those who don’t know any better, they come into the neighbourhood and lock their windows and drive on through, never stopping before they get somewhere else.
'These are the first few lines of my second book The Incredible Here and Now. I can’t say that I like them very much. I don’t think they work. The rhythm is great, some of the images too, but really what blows the whole thing is that it’s too restrictive, too reductive an image of what western Sydney is to be that useful.' (Introduction)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Sydney Review of Books
- Housos 2011 series - publisher film/TV
- An Elegant Young Man 2013 selected work short story
- The Incredible Here and Now 2013 single work novel
- Western Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,
