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Fiction

Thought Crimes  by Tim Richards

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September 2011, no. 334

Thought Crimes  by Tim Richards

Black Inc., $27.95 pb, 240 pp, 9781863955386

Fiction

Thought Crimes  by Tim Richards

by •
September 2011, no. 334

A book’s epigraph doesn’t often feel like a direct personal statement to the reader, but the one in Thought Crimes, drawn from Ionesco, is just that: ‘You got stuck in the mud of life. You felt warm and cosy. (Sharply) Now you’re going to freeze.’ Imagine the world as a jigsaw from which the author has removed some pieces, substituting them with his own pieces – but which ones are they?

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Carmel Bird

Carmel Bird is the author of Writing the Story of Your Life (2007). Her recent novel is Child of the Twilight (2010), and her children’s picture book Fabulous Finola Fox has just been published.

 

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