Victoria, TX, Dublin & London: Dalkey Archive Press, (2016). First edition - Australian author's first novel - "Eliza travels to Sydney to deal with the estate of her Aunt Dodge, and finds Maxine, a hitherto unknown cousin, occupying Dodge's apartment. When legal complications derail plans to live it up on their inheritance, the women's lives become consumed by absurd attempts to deal with Australian tax law, as well their own mounting boredom and squalor." The Wall Street Journal called it "part legal satire and part mash note to James Joyce. . . . Mr. Cox has a Joycean love of colloquialisms, puns and lists, and he modulates between drastically different registers of speech...[it's a] brilliant showoff of a book...…
Victoria, TX, Dublin & London: Dalkey Archive Press, (2016). First edition - Australian author's first novel - "Eliza travels to Sydney to deal with the estate of her Aunt Dodge, and finds Maxine, a hitherto unknown cousin, occupying Dodge's apartment. When legal complications derail plans to live it up on their inheritance, the women's lives become consumed by absurd attempts to deal with Australian tax law, as well their own mounting boredom and squalor." The Wall Street Journal called it "part legal satire and part mash note to James Joyce. . . . Mr. Cox has a Joycean love of colloquialisms, puns and lists, and he modulates between drastically different registers of speech...[it's a] brilliant showoff of a book... for a reader open to linguistic spectacle, its a memorable performance." 201 pp plus publisher's ads. ISBN: 978-.
DODGE ROSE.
