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Richard Derrington is twenty-eight and single. More single than he'd like to be. More single than he'd expected to be, and no coping well. Since Anna trashed him six months ago he's been trying to find his way again. He's doing his job badly, he's playing tennis badly, his renovating attempts haven't got past the verandah, and he's wondering when things are going to change.
'Zigzag Street' covers six weeks of Richard's life in Brisbane's Red Hill. Six weeks of rumination, chaos, poor judgement, interpersonal clumsiness . . . and, eventually, hope.
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| ISBN 13: | 9781863252867 |
| ISBN 10: | 186325286X |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Dimensions: | 179 x 110 mm |
| Released: | 01/12/2000 |
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Nick Earls is the author of seven books, including the bestselling novels Zigzag Street, Bachelor Kisses and Perfect Skin. His work has been published internationally in English and translated, and this led him to being a finalist for the Queensland Premier's Export Award in 1999. He has also toured internationally performing Headgames at the Livid Festival in 1999. Zigzag Street won a Betty Trask Award in the UK in 1998, and is currently being developed into a feature film. Bachelor Kisses was one of Who Weekly's Books of the Year in 1998.
Headgames, a collection of short stories published in March 1999, was the highest-selling new Australian fiction title nationally that month. 48 Shades of Brown, published in August 1999 has recently won the 2000 Children's Book Council Book of the Year - Older Readers Award, and is currently being adapted for theatre following the success of After January.
His earlier works include the award-winning young-adult novel After January which was adapted for theatre by Brisbane company La Boite, and Passion, a collection of short stories that was equal runner-up in the 1993 Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award.
Nick Earls graduated from his honours degree in Medicine in 1986. He lives in Brisbane, and now writes full-time.
Nick Earls is interested in exploring the place where science, comedy and ambivalence overlap.
His influences include American sitcoms of the 1990s and the monologues of Spalding Grey. Other than that it's subliminal and anybody's guess. Not that the guesses have been uninteresting, nor the comparisons unappealing (Woody Allen, the young Kingsley Amis, Seinfeld, Ben Elton, Nick Hornby).
Nick has worked as a GP, editor of a medical journal and has written jingles for pizzas and pens, beer and basketball, airlines and air-conditioning. And he's written theme-park comedies in which the marine mammals had to get all the punch lines. Nick has also written a song recorded by Normie Rowe and was thrown out of EMI London by a man in a denim suit and red shoes who'd just signed Sigue Sigue Sputnik. Other jobs have included: hospital RMO, senior medical officer for a health insurance fund, actor (film, in the least consequential of ways), writer (jingles, corporate theatre and videos), album executive producer, MC (two Mothers' Days, a fashion parade and a couple of Simon Gallagher gigs), and blood collector.
Nick Earls also thinks many things are better left to experts (eg, sailboarding, roofing, poetry) and is aware of at least some of his limitations
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