Borrowed Glamour. "The Boy" by Julian Davies. [review]

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2003-12
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Richardson, Owen
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Australian Book Review
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It is Davies’s failure to think his way fully into the material that keeps "The Boy" middling warm rather than hot. Erotic fiction, after all, is a kind of pastoral, and its demands on the imagination of the writer are exacting. You can see Davies trying for the rapt quality of James Salter’s "A Sport and a Pastime" or John Scott’s "What I Have Written", but he never gets there.
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Australian, Book Reviews, Publishing, New York, Owen Richardson, 1956, Canberra, London
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Richardson, Owen 2003. Borrowed Glamour. Review of "The Boy" by Julian Davies. 'Australian Book Review', No 257, December, 52.
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http://hdl.handle.net/2328/595
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No 257 - December, 2003 / January, 2004
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