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Double Wolf

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Preceded by
  
Pomeroy

Originally published
  
1991

Page count
  
226

Publisher
  
Allen & Unwin

Publication date
  
1991

Pages
  
226

Followed by
  
After China

Author
  
Brian Castro

ISBN
  
0044423470

Country
  
Australia

Similar
  
Shanghai Dancing, Looking for Estrellita, The Bath Fugues, The Garden Book, Street to Street

Double-Wolf is a 1991 novel by Australian novelist Brian Castro.

Contents

Plot summary

The novel is a fictionalised account of the life of Wolf-Man, Sigmund Freud's most famous patient, counter-pointed with an account of Artie Catacomb, a con-man and psychoanalyst living in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales.

Reviews

  • The Canberra Times - Reviewer Peter Fuller considered the novel to be the best imaginative writing of the year

    • Awards and nominations

  • 1991 winner The Age Book of the Year Award — Imaginative Writing Prize
  • 1992 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
  • 1992 winner Diabetes Australia Prize for Innovative Writing and the Sheaffer Pen Prize
  • 1992 shortlisted Miles Franklin Award

    • References

    Double-Wolf Wikipedia
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