The Return (Paperback)

Reg Cribb

ISBN 10: 0868196924 / ISBN 13: 9780868196923

Published by Currency Press Pty Ltd, Paddington, 2003

About this Item

Paperback. A thug and his junior partner in crime take a late night train from Perth to Fremantle, menacing passengers along the way. For an hour they own the train.Riding the uneasy line between comedy and terror, The Return is a tautly written study in peer pressure, anxiety and suppressed violence in a social class which is often silenced. A career thug and his junior partner in crime take a late night train from Perth to Fremantle, menacing passengers along the way. For an hour they own the train. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Return (Paperback)
• Publisher: Currency Press Pty Ltd, Paddington
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0868196924
• ISBN 13: 9780868196923
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

A thug and his junior partner in crime take a late night train from Perth to Fremantle, menacing passengers along the way. For an hour they own the train. Riding the uneasy line between comedy and terror, The Return is a tautly written study in peer pressure, anxiety and suppressed violence in a social class which is often silenced.

About the Author

REG CRIBB is a multi-award-winning writer for the stage and screen. His original plays include: The Damned (2012, winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Award); The Haunting of Daniel Gartrell (2012); Unaustralia (2012); Boundary Street (2011, winner of the Rodney Seaborn award); Krakouer (2010) Uncle Vanya; Ruby's Last Dollar (2005, nominated for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award); The Chatroom (2004, shortlisted for the Patrick White Playwright's Award); The Return (2001); and Last Cab to Darwin (2003, winner of the Patrick White Playwright's Award, the Queensland Premier's Literary Award, the WA Equity Award for Best New Play, the WA Premier's Literary Award and the WA Premier's Prize Award for Overall Literature, making history as the first play to win this award). He co-wrote the one-man play Gulpilil with David Gulpilil (2004). Reg's screen credits include adaptations of Last Cab to Darwin (winner of an AACTA for Best Adapted Screenplay, nominated for an AWGIE for Best Adapted Feature), The Return (renamed Last Train to Freo) and Ruby's Last Dollar; and the true-crime screenplay The Great Mint Swindle. Reg co-wrote Bran Nue Dae, for which he was nominated for an AFI award.