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Rubdown
2005 crime novel by Australian author Leigh Redhead From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rubdown is a 2005 crime novel by Australian author Katherine Howell.[1]
It is the second novel in the author's Simone Kirsch series of crime novels, following the author's 2004 novel Peepshow.[2]
It was the winner of the Readers Choice Davitt Award in 2006,[3] and the author was named as one of The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists in 2006.[4]
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Synopsis
Simone Kirsch is engaged to check out Tamara Wade, the daughter of a prominent Melbourne family who has been involved with drugs and has worked in a massage parlor. Then Wade is found dead and Kirsch sets out to investigate.
Critical reception
Reviewing the novel in Australian Book Review Tony Smith noted: "Simone is a parody of male PIs and a metaphor for all women facing the 'have it all', post-feminist dilemma, and thus Rubdown is serious satire."[5]
In her report about her time as a judge of the Davitt Award for Sisters in Crime, Sue Turnbull cal this novel "a witty, raunchy and frequently violent read about a stripper turned private eye."[6]
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Publication history
After the novel's initial publication in Australia by Allen & Unwin in 2005[1] it was reprinted by the same publisher in 2007.[7]
It was also translated into German in 2007.[8]
Awards
- 2006 Davitt Award for Readers Choice, winner[3]
- 2006 The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists[4]
- 2006 Ned Kelly Award, Best Novel, shortlisted[9]
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