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Something's Happened

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October 2004, no. 265

The Thompson Gunner by Nick Earls

Viking, $29.95 hb, 290 pp

Something's Happened

by
October 2004, no. 265

After nine books, Nick Earls is renowned for his slacker-male novels and his short stories of twenty-somethings in various stage of arrested development. Like his English equivalent Nick Homby, Earls specialises in a particular emotional state of the male psyche: a post-adolescent, pre-adult period usually spent chasing unobtainable women, getting drunk on green alcoholic beverages and behaving badly in amusing ways. Written with self-deprecating wit and dollops of humour, Earls’s previous books are the equivalent of a fizzy soft drink, easily ingested and with a sugary residue.

The Thompson Gunner

The Thompson Gunner

by Nick Earls

Viking, $29.95 hb, 290 pp

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