Prochownik's Dream

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Prochownik's Dream
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First edition
AuthorAlex Miller
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
PublisherAllen & Unwin, Australia
Publication date
2005
Media typePrint Hardback & Paperback
Pages299 pp
ISBN1-74114-249-0
OCLC64449584
823/.914 22
LC ClassPR9619.3.M469 P76 2005

Prochownik's Dream is a 2005 novel by the Australian author Alex Miller. In this new novel the double Miles Franklin Award winner dramatises the dichotomy within an artist as he negotiates the creative life.' - Jane Sullivan, 'The Age'. [1]

Notes[]

  • Dedication: "For Stephanie. For the memory of Max Blatt. "
  • Epigraph: "'We cannot arbitrarily invent projects for ourselves: they have to be written in our past as requirements" (Simone de Beauvoir)

Awards[]

  • 2006 Longlisted, Miles Franklin Literary Award
  • 2005, FAW Melbourne University Publishing Award, highly commended

Interviews[]

  • Jane Sullivan, 'The Miller's Tale, "The Age", 5 November 2005 [2]
  • "Books and Writing" [3]

Reviews[]

  • "The Age" [4]
  • "AussieReviews" [5]


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