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'Set against the backdrop of the Australian coast, as randomly and imminently violent as it is beautiful, The Rip reveals the fragility of relationships between husbands and wives, children and parents, friends and lovers.
'You will find yourself set down in a modern Garden of Eden with a disgraced Adam seeking his Eve; sharing the fears of a small boy in a coastal classroom as a tsunami approaches; in an English gaol cell with an Australian surfer on drug charges; and witnessing a middle-aged farmer contemplating murdering the hippie who stole his wife.'
Source: Publisher's blurb (Penguin ed.)
Notes
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Dedication: For Julie Gibbs, Michael Bisits and Andrew Clark.
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Epigraphs:
A rip tide is raging/And the lifeguard is away/But the ocean doesn't want me today. Tom Waits, The Ocean Doesn't Want Me.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
Contents
- The Lap Pool, single work short story (p. 1-36)
- The Obituary of Gina Lavelle, single work short story (p. 37-45)
- Sea Level, single work short story (p. 47-53)
- The Water Person and the Tree Person, single work short story (p. 55-67)
- The Whale Watchers, single work short story (p. 69-76)
- Stones Like Hearts, single work short story (p. 77-84)
- The Aquarium at Night, single work short story (p. 85-113)
- Masculine Shoes, single work short story (p. 115-133)
- The Cartoonist, single work short story (p. 135-143)
- Prometheus and Greg, single work short story (p. 145-161)
- How to Kill a Cane Toad, single work short story (p. 163-181)
- The Rip, single work short story (p. 183-192)
- The Life Alignment of the Coffee Grower, single work short story (p. 193-216)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Sea of Stories
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Indigo , Spring no. 4 2009; (p. 130-132)
— Review of The Boat 2008 selected work short story ; The Rip 2008 selected work short story -
Robert Drewe and the Business of Writing
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Indigo , Spring no. 4 2009; (p. 8-15) -
Spies Add Intrigue to Festival of the Write Stuff
2009
single work
column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 29 January 2009; (p. 19) -
Books
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: SundayLife , 21 December 2008; (p. 26)
— Review of Breath 2008 single work novel ; The Rip 2008 selected work short story ; The Great Fletch : The Dazzling Life of Wimbledon Aussie Larrikin Ken Fletcher 2008 single work biography ; The House at Salvation Creek 2008 single work autobiography ; The Slap 2008 single work novel ; The Islands 2008 single work novel -
Riding with the Sea Changes
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 1 November 2008; (p. 9)
— Review of The Rip 2008 selected work short story
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[Review] The Rip
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , August vol. 88 no. 2 2008; (p. 39)
— Review of The Rip 2008 selected work short story -
Australian Lives Moved by Tides and Seasons
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 September 2008; (p. 14)
— Review of The Rip 2008 selected work short story -
Boomers Crash on the Coast
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 27-28 September 2008; (p. 10-11)
— Review of The Rip 2008 selected work short story -
Coastal Man Caught in a Mid-Life Current
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27-28 September 2008; (p. 32-33)
— Review of The Rip 2008 selected work short story -
Inside Out
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , October vol. 3 no. 9 2008; (p. 23)
— Review of The Rip 2008 selected work short story -
The Long and Short of It
Shane Strange
(interviewer),
2008
single work
interview
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , August vol. 88 no. 2 2008; (p. 47) -
Ripped and Torn
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 27 September 2008; (p. 14-15) -
Inspiration Blooms in an Antipodean Eden
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 11 October 2008; (p. 25) -
Spies Add Intrigue to Festival of the Write Stuff
2009
single work
column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 29 January 2009; (p. 19) -
Robert Drewe and the Business of Writing
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Indigo , Spring no. 4 2009; (p. 8-15)