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Wake In Fright
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Author : Kenneth Cook
language : en
Publisher: Text Publishing
Release Date : 2017-08-28
Wake In Fright written by Kenneth Cook and has been published by Text Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-28 with Fiction categories.
The controller stood back. ‘Right,’ he said. ‘Spin ’em!’ The man flipped the piece of wood and the coins spun up into the air above his head and dropped down on to the carpet. There was silence. Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant’s journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers. Kenneth Cook was born in Sydney. Wake in Fright, which drew on his time as a journalist in Broken Hill, was first published in 1961 when Cook was thirty-two. It was published in England and America, translated into several languages, and a prescribed text in schools. Cook wrote twenty-one books in a variety of genres, and was well known in film circles as a scriptwriter and independent film-maker. He died in 1987 at the age of fifty-seven. ‘Wake in Fright deserves its status as a modern classic. Cook’s prose is masterful and the story is gripping from the first page to the last.’ M.J. Hyland ‘A classic novel which became a classic film. The Outback without the sentimental bulldust. Australia without the sugar coating.’ Robert Drewe ‘A true dark classic of Australian literature.’ J.M. Coetzee ‘Wake in Fright is a classic of the ugly side of Menzies’ Australia, its brutality, its drunkenness, its anxiety to crush all sensibility. All of this is harrowingly reacorded —the destruction of a young soul fresh to Australia—in Kenneth Cook’s remarkable novel.’ Thomas Keneally
Wake In Fright
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Author : Tina Kaufman
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
Release Date : 2013-02
Wake In Fright written by Tina Kaufman and has been published by ReadHowYouWant this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02 with categories.
Based on the celebrated novel by Kenneth Cook, "Wake in Fright" is a sharply observed drama about a schoolteacher stranded in a hostile country town. John Grant, a 'naive city - type', is stuck teaching in Tiboonda, a desolate outback town. On route to Sydney for his summer vacation, he becomes stranded in Bundanyabba after losing all his money in a two - up game. Here the harshness of outback Australian life takes over and the holiday from hell begins.
Wake In Fright
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Author : Kenneth Cook
language : en
Publisher: Text Publishing
Release Date : 2012-04-26
Wake In Fright written by Kenneth Cook and has been published by Text Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-26 with Fiction categories.
The controller stood back. ‘Right,’ he said. ‘Spin ‘em!’ The man flipped the piece of wood and the coins spun up into the air above his head and dropped down on to the carpet. There was silence. Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant’s journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers. This edition also includes an Afterword by film critic, David Stratton. Wake in Fright was made into a film in 1971, arguably the greatest film ever made in Australia. It starred Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, and Jack Thompson in his first screen role. Lost for many years, the restored film was re-released to acclaim in 2009.
We Don T Go Back
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Author : Howard David Ingham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-07-08
We Don T Go Back written by Howard David Ingham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-08 with Horror films categories.
Secret, strange, dark, impure and dissonant...Enter the haunted landscapes of folk horror, a world of pagan village conspiracies, witch finders, and teenagers awakening to evil; of dark fairy tales, backwoods cults and obsolete technologies. Beginning with the classics Night of the Demon, Witchfinder General, The Wicker Man and Blood on Satan's Claw, We Don't Go Back surveys the genre of screen folk horror from across the world. Travelling from Watership Down to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, with every stop inbetween, We Don't Go Back is a thoughtful, funny and essential overview of folk horror in TV and cinema."A beautiful rumination on the dark films and television that shaped me and a generation of odd children, for good or ill, worth a year of your time, because you won't just read the book, you'll feel a burning desire to watch everything mentioned within." - Robin Ince"A comprehensive, accessible and often riotously funny tome weaving together folk horror in all its forms, from British television to the American backwoods, from Eastern European fairytales to the vengeful ghosts of East Asia. Ingham explores uncanny landscapes haunted by things buried, old cultures converging with the reluctance of contemporary reason, that very tension that gives his book its name. He attempts to both define folk horror and free it from definition, creating the ultimate guide to the genre's manifestations on film and offering a convincing argument as to why the genre resonates so compellingly with people today." - Kier-La Janisse, author of House of Psychotic Women
Wake In Fright
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Wake In Fright written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Australia categories.
Fear Is The Rider
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Author : Kenneth Cook
language : en
Publisher: Text Publishing
Release Date : 2016-01-27
Fear Is The Rider written by Kenneth Cook and has been published by Text Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-27 with Fiction categories.
It was quite silent in the scrub. No breeze stirred the leaves and no bird moved, except for the kite hawks wheeling silently, eternally, high in the hot air. She smelt her attacker before she saw him. A heavy stench hit her with such force that she started with shock. It was a smell she’d never encountered before. Not man, not animal, something like carrion, but alive. It seemed to envelop and suffocate her, then became tangible as two arms wrapped around her body and began tearing at her clothing. A young man driving from Sydney to Adelaide for work decides to take a short detour into the desert. He turns his hatchback on to a notoriously dangerous track that bisects uninhabited stone-covered flats. Out there, under the baking sun, people can die within hours. He’s not far along the road when a distraught young woman stumbles from the scrub and flags him down. A journalist from Sydney, she has just escaped the clutches of an inexplicable, terrifying creature. Now this desert-dwelling creature has her jeep. Her axe. And her scent... From the author of the classic novel Wake In Fright comes a chillingly brilliant short novel that’s part Wolf Creek and part Duel. Fear Is the Rider is a nail-biting chase into the outback, towards the devil lurking at its centre. Wake In Fright was made into an internationally acclaimed film. Fear Is the Rider is a previously unpublished manuscript from the 1980s that was recently rediscovered among Kenneth Cook’s papers. Kenneth Cook was born in Sydney. Wake In Fright, which drew on his time as a journalist in Broken Hill, was first published in 1961 when Cook was 32. It was published in England and America, translated into several languages, and was a prescribed text in schools. Cook wrote twenty-two books in a variety of genres, and was well known in film circles as a scriptwriter and independent film-maker. He died in 1987. ‘Fantastic, breath-taking, edge of the seat stuff.’ Col’s Criminal Library ‘This lost Ozploitation gem is pure horror adrenaline, as characters and reader alike are hunted by a relentless golem—the nightmare outback monster we've always feared.’ Chris Flynn, author of A Tiger in Eden and The Glass Kingdom ‘The moment to moment effect of reading Fear Is the Rider is one of gasping attentiveness to the urgent needs of the present...There is special, pulpy kind of genius to the kind of book that almost swipes ahead for us, like a concert pianist’s assistant.’ Australian ‘Another great retro thriller. Treat it like going to a movie, because it will only take you a couple of hours to power through it...It’s just pure adrenaline and survival.’ Herald Sun ‘A suspense packed ride until the final page.’ QANTAS Magazine ‘Possibly the scariest, most spine-chilling and nerve-wracking book I’ve read. Ever...It’s incredibly filmic—think Wolf Creek meets Mad Max—and so visceral I could feel my heart rising up in my throat as I turned the pages.’ Reading Matters ‘A schlocky, old-school thriller in the best possible way...A kind of literary Mad Max, a master class in Ozploitation, or simply as a short, sharp burst of literary adrenaline, Fear is the Rider is a hell of a lot of fun.’ Readings ‘[A] short but powerful novel, Cook takes the reader on an action-packed, tension-filled ride...Definitely a page-turner.’ BookMooch
Wake In Fright
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Author : Evan Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Wake In Fright written by Evan Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Motion picture plays, Australian categories.
A young Englishman teaching in an outback school sets off to spend his summer vacation in Sydney but doesn't make it beyond the nearby mining town known as 'the Yabba'. He is engulfed by the slightly sinister mateship of the locals with its undertow of repressed sexuality and squalid violence. The excess of this alcoholic nightmare is held in check by rough humour.
Behind A Velvet Light Trap
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Author : Anthony Buckley
language : en
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
Release Date : 2009
Behind A Velvet Light Trap written by Anthony Buckley and has been published by Hardie Grant Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Art categories.
As the editor of the classic films Wake in Fright, Age of Consent and Nureyev's Don Quixote, as well as television series that include Poor Man's Orange, Celluloid Heroes and Man on the Run, Tony Buckley is well placed to take us behind the scenes to observe through his eyes the fascinating growth of Australian film making.
The Hunted
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Author : Gabriel Bergmoser
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2020-06-16
The Hunted written by Gabriel Bergmoser and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-16 with Fiction categories.
Where does the adventure end . . . and the nightmare begin? Frank owns a service station on a little-used highway. His granddaughter, Allie, is sent to stay with him for the summer, but they don't talk a lot. Simon is a dreamer and an idealist, in thrall to the romance of the open road and desperately in search of something. Maggie is the woman who will bring them together, someone whose own personal journey will visit unimaginable terror on them all. . . 'With echoes of Deliverance and Battle Royale, the Australian outback-set The Hunted is a truly terrifying, breathlessly exciting novel. It gut-punches you in the first few pages and doesn't let you recover until the final, thrilling climax. An extraordinary book.' M. W. CRAVEN What readers are saying: 'A high octane roller-coaster of a novel, brilliantly written with strong characters to cheer for. Just don't read it before going to sleep like I did.' 'This type of horror/action thriller isn't my usual thing but boy, did I love this book.' 'This entire book was just pure, fast-paced tension and I loved every insane page of it.' 'I'd say it's a hard book to put down, but a couple of times I found the suspense heightened enough that I needed a break. That's how good it was.' 'Even the squeamish would find it difficult to put this book down for very long.'
Wake In Fright
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Author : Kenneth 1929- Cook
language : en
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Release Date : 2021-09-09
Wake In Fright written by Kenneth 1929- Cook and has been published by Hassell Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-09 with categories.
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