PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE The Artful Dole-Bludger, written, edited, laid out and hopefully not buried by Caroline Ambrus and Robert Verdon, has just been published by Irrepressible Press, PO Box 821 Woden Canberra ACT 2606 (http://www.irrepressible.com.au). Price $17 and $10 concession. See also http://www.alphalink.com.au/~agp/adb.htm. The Artful Dole-Bludger is an exposé of the idiocy of contemporary treatment of the unempoyed by that most-complained about of all government agencies, Centrelink (an institution which should perhaps be replaced by a computer in the interests of compassion). It is the story of Queanbeyan, NSW, 'character' Arthur/Martha, a sad case of multiple personality and artistic leanings. Arthur/Martha is — are — a very macho man and an ultrafeminine woman sharing the same androgynous and increasingly decrepit body. The Artful Dole Bludger tells the story of how, despite their incessant squabbling over Arthur's chronic alcoholism and anarchistic tendencies, they beat the system for the sake of their art. This is a breathtakingly funny and irreverent book. Caroline Ambrus is the author of The Ladies Picture Show (Hale & Iremonger, 1984), The Illustrated Dole Diary (Irrepressible, 1998), and many other books. Robert Verdon is the author of The Well-Scrubbed Desert (Polonius, 1994), Her Brilliant Career (AGP, 1998) and My Cat Eats Spaghetti (Ginninderra Press, 1999). -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
