Comments on: Finding the Bloke

By: War Dances « Thinking Allowed

War Dances « Thinking Allowed — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 05:55:17 +0000

[...] of humour as it deals with deeper issues of race, prejudice and disadvantage – see, for instance, Bloke – while not ignoring those issues which beset humanity generally. Alexie, likewise, sees the [...]

By: From the Kitchen #14 « Thinking Allowed

From the Kitchen #14 « Thinking Allowed — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:27:36 +0000

[...] who pulls few punches. Actually, I read it twice, as I was reviewing it. The book is called Bloke and the author, Bruce Pascoe, is far from timid in his writing – he is a sharpshooter rather than [...]

By: From the Kitchen #23 « Thinking Allowed

From the Kitchen #23 « Thinking Allowed — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:21:33 +0000

[...] the other hand, this beautiful snippet from Bruce Pascoe’s Bloke (Viking, 2009): … a lazy estuary where jade water whispered across sandbanks rippled like the [...]