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At once a celebration of the most elegant, arcane and mysterious cocktail of them all, the Martini, and this is a lyrical memoir of friendship and love won and lost, as the author muses on the aesthetics of Martini lore, olive or twist, shaken or stirred, Dorothy Parker or James Bond, and the nature of drinking.

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As the conference participants settle in with their name tags and satchels, as they sort out amongst themselves their seating arrangements and gently jostle for positions at the bar bistro, as they brace themselves for the first confrontation between opposing faction, he wryly observes the subtle shifts in their allegiances.

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Explores the tempo and shifts in mores and style of a dynamic decade - the 70s - in Australias cultural development. Deftly interweaving literature and documentary history, the author traces, the sub- cultural movements towaqrds sexual liberation, cultural identity and a new creative and intellectual confidence.

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The people in these stories are a tribe - a modern, urban tribe - which does not fully recognise itself as such. The experiences of the inner city ambience are shown through stories of growing up, leaving home, coming to the city from the country, or returning there; first love affairs and the anti-ideology of Liberaterianism.

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In an odyssey which moves across a world stage. Tales of Mystery and Romance touches high comedy and low farce - the non-event of the Jack Kerouac Wake, the dispute over the exact form of secular penetration achieved by Milton, an argument with an ex-wife over 'motel sex' and more.

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The milleu is a Sydney under-40 population who, hoping that being earnest or outrageous will make them feel real, are left saturated with anxiety instead. The stories are timeless in their concerns, and explore ideolgy, idealism, conflict.

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T. George McDowell, a soft drinks manufacturer on the south coast of New South Wales, prides himself on extolling the virtues of progres. But trouble in the shape of his youngest daughter, Terri, tests his values and beliefs, and he finds that his own sexual longings begin to intrude in his dreams.

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This irreverent and hilarious book is set in an imaginary statutory body called the Office of the Inspector-General of Misconception. The book satirises our current appetite for Official Inquiries, Royal Commissions and Senate Inquiries.