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Bill Leak

Heart Cancer by Bill Leak & Moments Of Truth by Bill Leaks

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December 2005–January 2006, no. 277

Bill Leak’s first novel, Heart Cancer, is a quasi-picaresque larrikin’s progress that unexpectedly turns into a tale about addiction and self-destruction. It is an enterprising book, but Leak has the difficulty any novelist might in getting the two tones – the comic and the serious – properly balanced.

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