TY - BOOK AU - Abrahams,Chris TI - Maddox SN - 9781925780246 (paperback) U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Waratah, NSW PB - Puncher & Wattman KW - Humorous fiction KW - Australian fiction KW - Bars (Drinking establishments) KW - fast KW - Eccentrics and eccentricities KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Fiction KW - lcgft KW - Humorous stories KW - lcsh KW - New Zealand fiction KW - 21st century N2 - After a stint as a music venue proprietor, Geoff Maddox is getting on with his life: managing his complex domestic situation; visiting the local shopping mall: and socialising with the regulars at the Stella Maris Hotel. This routine is disrupted by a fateful encounter with a young dancer, Amber, and the reappearance of an unsavoury character from his past. His life is rerouted into an undisciplined quest to fulfil his desire and prove himself. Maddox is a fast-paced, blackly comic ride around the inner workings of a man with time on his hands ER -