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Fiction

The Hole Through the Centre of the World by Kevin Brophy

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February–March 1991, no. 128

The Hole Through the Centre of the World by Kevin Brophy

New Endeavour Press/Simon & Schuster, 202 pp, $16.95 pb

Fiction

The Hole Through the Centre of the World by Kevin Brophy

by •
February–March 1991, no. 128

Current events in the Gulf suggests that the political lessons of this century notwithstanding the unbelievers of the West still have faith in the efficacy of the short sharp shock administered by a hi-tech war. Religion sustains one side, Science the other and God of course, as always, is on both.

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Michelle de Kretser

Michelle de Kretser is the author of The Rose Grower (1999), The Hamilton Case (2003), The Lost Dog (2007), and Questions of Travel (2012). She has won many prizes, including the Miles Franklin Award and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction.

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