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The Boy Who Loved Dolls (John A Scott, Puncher & Wattmann)

Tuesday, 30 June 2026    Books+Publishing
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Set in 1987 in Victoria, The Boy Who Loved Dolls by John A Scott (N, What I Have Written) initially follows the conversations between two protagonists: Jean-Jacques Baille, a lauded, retired French auteur in the vein of Bertolucci or Antonioni, and Susan Vaughan, a 27-year-old critic who is making a documentary...

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