Blue moon bay / Rod Moss
- Bib ID:
- 8535144
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Moss, Rod, 1948-, author, illustrator
- Description:
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- [Alice Springs, NT.] : [Rod Moss], ©2019
- [Granville, NSW] : printed by Focus Print Group, 2019
- ©2019
- 147 pages : colour illustrations ; 19 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780646999142 (paperback)
- 0646999141 (paperback)
- Summary:
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The deceptively calm waters of Blue Moon Bay host a gallery of flamboyantly grotesque characters. Their winding and poignant journeys always teeter on the edge of absurdity while remaining strangely moving, testament to the enormous affection with which they are drawn. There is the sexy but troubled Solange, Pope the footy coach and founder of a new religion, and Noddy Mason, taxi driver extraordinaire who is made of wood. Chief amongst the characters is the Fatman, vital to the town's prosperity with his gluttonous appetite and mastery of turd diving and final piped farts. In fact the town itself and its inhabitants collectively are the main game. It really is a theatre of voices, with the beautiful and often hilarious drawings always the key notes. And the saving grace of music is a lovely way to end it.The wildness, the freedom, the low down, lavatorial, alcohol-drenched mindlessness of the characters and their extraordinary pursuits, make for a work that is utterly original.
- Full contents:
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- Fergus 'Fatman' Fuke
- A valve in time saves lives
- The Indian
- The well-hung rock races
- A bald dilemma
- The great card night
- 'Horny' Rorn's interrogation
- Back to the bay
- Ancestry
- Diving for turds
- Tourism takes a tumble
- Internet dating
- Oo me doodle
- Herbs for hybridity
- Hairy dog blues.
- Credits:
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- Publishing consultant and production management, Patty Brown.
- Design, Ry Waterworth.
- Draft publications, Colemans Printers, Alice Springs.
- Biography/History:
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Award-winning artist and author Rod Moss has lived in Central Australia since the early 1980s. He's exhibited work in all Australian capital cities and in the USA and is represented in public galleries accordingly. The Hard Light Of Day, his first memoir, won the 2011 Prime Ministers award for non-fiction and in 2017 was published in New York.
- Notes:
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- Draft publications, Colemans Printers, Alice Springs.
- Blue Moon Bay was launched at the Alice Springs Public Library Wednesday 15 May 2019, between 5pm-6pm.
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- Terms of Use:
- The Australian Copyright Act 1968 (the Act) allows a maximum of one chapter or 10 percent of this book, whichever is the greater, to be photocopied by any educational institution for its educational purposes provided the educational institution (or body that administers it) has given a remuneration notice to the Copyright Agency (Australia) under the Act.
- Copyright:
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2019
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