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Fiction

Eat Well and Stay Out of Jail by Leonie Stevens & Perfect Skin by Nick Earls

by Linda Jaivin
April 2000, no. 219

Eat Well and Stay Out of Jail by Leonie Stevens

Penguin, $14.95 pb, 198 pp

Perfect Skin by Nick Earls

Viking, $24.95 pb, 355 pp

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‘Look, here I am, I’m sixteen and I’m hundreds of miles from home! I want adventure! I want excitement! I want to boldly go where no Noble has gone before. Look at me! Look! Look!’ In Leonie Stevens’s Eat Well and Stay Out of Jail, Vicky Noble has left Melbourne to escape the tedium of a shelf-stacking job at the supermarket and the torment of a publicly failed romance. Vicky wants more than just to run away from her life. She craves a brand new one, preferably on the Jack Kerouac model.

 


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Eat Well and Stay Out of Jail by Leonie Stevens

Penguin, $14.95 pb, 198 pp

Perfect Skin

Perfect Skin by Nick Earls

Viking, $24.95 pb, 355 pp

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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