Double-Wolf
Book by Brian Castro
0044423470Double-Wolf is a 1991 novel by Australian novelist Brian Castro.
Plot summary
The novel is a fictionalised account of the life of Wolf-Man, Sigmund Freud's most famous patient, counter-pointed with an account of Artie Catacomb, a con-man and psychoanalyst living in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales.
Reviews
- The Canberra Times[1] - Reviewer Peter Fuller considered the novel to be the best imaginative writing of the year[2]
Awards and nominations
- 1991 winner The Age Book of the Year Award — Imaginative Writing Prize
- 1992 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
- 1992 winner Diabetes Australia Prize for Innovative Writing and the Sheaffer Pen Prize
- 1992 shortlisted Miles Franklin Award