title: Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead (Sydney studies in Australian literature)
author:  Nicholas Birns 
description: Nicholas Birns is professor at the New School, New York. He is a leading scholar of Australian literature and editor of Antipodes, the publication of the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies.
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  PRAISE FOR AN IRON ROSE  
  & PETER TEMPLE
  
  
  FOUR-TIME WINNER OF THE NED KELLY AWARDS
  
  
  ‘In the past couple of years Peter Temple has built up a reputation as the
  coolest and most elegant of Australian crime writers, and it’s not hard to see
  why.’ Peter Craven, The Age
  
  
  ‘One of Australia’s best crime novelists.’  
  Canberra Times
  
  
  ‘Fast, funny and assured…It’s a classic format, and Temple is on top of the
  necessary detail, quick switches, and rhythms…An Iron Rose is a very
  Australian take on the tradition of the man in mid-flight, alienated from his
  history, in various sorts of denial, forced out of his melancholy, his self-
  absorption or self-pity.’ Australian Book Review
  
  
  ‘Peter Temple sets up a great hard boiled read allowing the characters of
  rural Australia to work off each other as only Australians can. The language
  is short and sharp, the setting, one we’ve all seen somewhere in our lives and
  the plot one of enough twists and 