Plugged in to Queensland
True Love and How to Get IL By Gerard Lee. University of Queensland Press, 1981. 213 pp. Our hero is a romantic in search of love in a world populated by aging hippies (sunrise mural on the wall, bean sprouts, and relationship hassles), born agains, Okkers (Brutus Australis, long rat-tailed hair, beer gut, three days' growth, receding eyes), and Punkers (I live on chemicals, I plug myself in at night). They lead the hero to muse that “if someone could only start a fashion for suicide we could rid ourselves of a lot of nitwits." Through his encounters with Annie, slave of the Null and Voidz lesbians, Pee Vee Cee of the Nuclear Lurex personality, and the adored Christine, he reaches some anarchic form of resolution on a transmission tower high above ' a commercial television station.
This short novel is about Queensland — the drop-out dole-bludging. Queensland which Joh Bjelke-Petersen berates as subversive, but which is revelaled instead as simple chaotic, self-indulgent lotuseating. It is a very black and very funny Queensland drop-out anthropology. — Ruth Zanker.
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Press, 29 May 1982, Page 16
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