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Omar and Enzo in the Big Talking Book by Colin Batrouney

Clouds of Magellan Publishing, $24.95 pb, 190 pp

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Omar Nassif and Enzo Cugliari are fringe-dwellers, beyond ‘white trash’. That harshest of middle-class put-downs fairly locates their distance from the outsider types who claim our interest. Omar and Enzo are anti-charismatic, their physical selves undescribed. In contrast, Ari, the angry child of migrants in Christos Tsiolkas’s Loaded (1995) wants drugs, sex and dancing, and inevitably his character now conjures up the sex god in the film role, Alex Dimitriades. On the top shelf there is Lord Lucan, incognito and surgically disenhanced, slumming on Tasmania’s coastal glory in Heather Rose’s The Butterfly Man (2005); attractively guilt-wracked and evolved, Lucan trails glamour and enigmatic women. The actor would be Jeremy Irons.

 


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Omar and Enzo in the Big Talking Book by Colin Batrouney

Clouds of Magellan Publishing, $24.95 pb, 190 pp

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


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