Prochownik's Dream

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Prochownik's Dream
Author Alex Miller
Country Australia
Language English
Genre Novel
Publisher Allen & Unwin, Australia
Publication date
2005
Media type Print Hardback & Paperback
Pages 299 pp
ISBN 1-74114-249-0
OCLC 64449584
Dewey Decimal 823/.914 22
LC Class PR9619.3.M469 P76 2005
Preceded by Journey to the Stone Country
Followed by Landscape of Farewell

Prochownik's Dream is a 2005 novel by the Australian author Alex Miller. In this new novel the double Miles Franklin winner dramatises the dichotomy within an artist as he negotiates the creative life.' - Jane Sullivan, 'The Age'.

Notes

  • Dedication: "For Stephanie. For the memory of Max Blatt. "
  • Epigraph: "'We cannot arbitrarily invent projects for ourselves: they have to be written in our past as requirements" (Simone de Beauvoir)

Awards

  • 2006 Longlisted, Miles Franklin Literary Award
  • 2005, FAW Melbourne University Publishing Award, highly commended

Interviews

  • Jane Sullivan, 'The Miller's Tale, "The Age", 5 November 2005
  • "Books and Writing"

Reviews

  • "The Age"
  • "AussieReviews"


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