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Dodge Rose

Jack Cox

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English
Text Publishing Company
27 April 2016
Eliza travels to Sydney to deal with the estate of her Aunt Dodge, and

finds Maxine, a hitherto unknown cousin, occupying Dodge's apartment.

When legal complications derail plans to live it up on their

inheritance, the women's lives become consumed by absurd attempts to

deal with Australian tax law, as well their own mounting boredom and

squalor.

Hailed as the most astonishing debut novel of the decade, Dodge Rose calls to mind Henry Green in its skewed use of colloquial speech, Joyce

in its love of inventories, and William Gaddis in its virtuoso

lampooning of law, high finance, and national myth.
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Imprint:   Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 233mm,  Width: 154mm,  Spine: 16mm
Weight:   274g
ISBN:   9781925355611
ISBN 10:   1925355616
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Dodge Rose

'An original, at times brilliant work that in its avoidance of cliche, its restorative effect on language, actually does recall Beckett.' Guardian 'A wild, untamed work, one of the most ambitious, unusual and difficult first novels in recent Australian literary history.' Australian 'Dodge Rose is fresh and astonishingly good, but it is also an author's challenge to a reader. Not a challenge to question one's morals or their life-choices, but to examine the very technique of reading.' Readings 'Frequently brilliant.' Literary Review 'A book about the way language can hum...Cox is a beautiful writer.' Saturday Paper 'Brilliant and dark, mysterious and immediate, moving and maddening, disturbing and entertaining...[an] extraordinary first novel that compacts the histories of a continent and of a family into a dazzle of two hundred pages.' Times Literary Supplement


  • Short-listed for New South Wales Premier's Literary Award, Glena Adams Award for New Writing 2017 (Australia)
  • Short-listed for Voss Literary Prize 2017 (Australia)

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