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Autumn book reviews

Chasing the McCubbin

by Sandi Scaunich

Published by Transit Lounge Publishing ISBN 9781925760590

$29.99

A microcosmic story, set in Melbourne’s outer suburbia during the early 1990s recession memorably described as the one ‘we had to have.’ Joseph, a teenage refugee from domestic violence and an utterly broken home, is crushed by his circumstances and largely disengaged from a world which has offered him so little. By a chance meeting, he is introduced to Ron and his world of antique collectors, a highly competitive and eclectic group making their living by

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