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  • Published 20251104
  • ISBN: 978-1-923213-13-5
  • Extent: 196pp
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DOUG CLOUDY WAS desperate for it. He hadn’t been laid since the backpackers came through town all those years ago. Even then, he’d only got lucky because he was the designated driver – a social class that even the tourists could sniff out as lowly and pitiful – just as he’d been every weekend since parole.

THE YOUNG CROATIAN had taken pity on him.

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About the author

Alexander Bennetts

Alexander Bennetts is a writer and music-maker in Melbourne, Australia. His work has been published in Meanjin, Westerly and Going Down Swinging, among others. 

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