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33 Postcards From Heaven
33 Postcards From Heaven
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"33 Postcards From Heaven" is a comic novel masquerading as a book of postcards and written like a film script. A gentle satire on the New Age movement, it describes one man's search for the perfect day. That man is Joe Deegan, a teledramatist by trade (soap operas and cop shows), and an incurable romantic by inclination. Joe comes to Heaven, UStraylia, seeking a stress-free lifestyle in a non-toxic environment. This naturally involves organic food, a lot of healing, a fair bit of enlightenment and a little lie-down on an unspoilt beach - almost every day. Where it finally dawns on Joe that, while life could be completely miraculous, time remained unbearably short. And with expensive guidance from his accountant/guru, things were going really well - until the occasion of Joe's fiftieth birthday. In quick succession he nearly drowns in the surf, throws away an undemanding, well-paid job, and pretty much destroys the perfect relationship. When it looks as though his humble fibro cottage is about to be surrounded by dozens of cluster-cement town houses, the happy birthday starts to go seriously pear shaped....

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PublisherPaul Davies
Release dateDec 9, 2015
ISBN9781311398161
33 Postcards From Heaven
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Paul Davies

Paul Davies is an award winning screenwriter, script editor and playwright who has worked on a number of television series from Homicide (1974-5), The Box (1975-76) and The Sullivans (1976-78) to Skyways (1979), Rafferty’s Rules (1985), Blue Heelers (1997), Pacific Drive (1996), Stingers (1998-2003), Headland (2005) and Something in the Air (1999-2001). He also helped spark the site-specific performance revolution in Melbourne in the 1980s with TheatreWorks’ production of his first play Storming Mont Albert By Tram (1982). What became known as The Tram Show played over a dozen years to packed trams in Melbourne and Adelaide, generating around a million dollars at the box office and trambulating a total distance that would have taken the production halfway around the world. Its success lead to an outbreak of ‘location theatre’ in Melbourne throughout the 1980s including Paul’s other plays: Breaking Up In Balwyn (1983, on a riverboat), Living Rooms (1986, in an historic mansion) and Full House/No Vacancies (1989, in a boarding house). These works became the subject of his doctoral thesis Really Moving Drama (University of Queensland, 2013). Both The Tram Show and another play, On Shifting Sandshoes (1988) were awarded AWGIES (Australian Writer's Guild Awards), as was Return of The Prodigal (2000) an episode of Something In The Air. Paul has written five feature films Neil Lynn (with David Baker in 1984) Traps, All That is Solid and One Way Street (with John Hughes in 1985, 1988 and 1990) plus the Greater Union Award nominated Exits (with Pat Laughren in 1980). He has taught Literature and Screenwriting at Southern Cross and James Cook Universities, and conducted workshops and script consultancies for Screenworks Northern Rivers, and QPIX in Brisbane. His novel, 33 Postcards From Heaven was first published by Gondwana Press in 2004, and is now available online as an ebook. He has also published numerous articles, reviews, stories and interviews in magazines such as Metro, Cinema Papers, Cantrill’s Filmnotes, Australasian Drama Studies, Community Theatre In Australia, The Macquarie Companion to the Australian Media and Theatre Research International (Cambridge University).

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