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W.A. Harbinson (Author)
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February 1, 1985
Bestselling author W.A.Harbinson (GENESIS; REVELATION) changes direction completely with this outrageous, over-the-top black comedy that satirizes pornography, male chauvinism, the female liberation movement and just about everything relating to male-female relationships. Possibly the most politically incorrect novel since THE GINGER MAN and the funniest since CATCH 22. It's even the author's personal favourite amongst his own works. Prepare to laugh yourself sick.
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About the Author

W.A.Harbinson was the Chief Associate Editor of Paul Raymond's MEN ONLY and CLUB INTERNATIONAL from 1972 to 1976, when the magazines were at the height of their popularity. He left to become a full-time professional writer, producing many books, including the best-selling novels GENESIS and REVELATION, and a Number 1 US best-selling biography of ELVIS PRESLEY. Though born and bred in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Harbinson presently resides in West Cork, Ireland. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: New English Library Ltd (February 1, 1985)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0450051269
  • ISBN-13: 978-0450051265
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,109,053 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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W.A.HARBINSON was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland,in 1941. Leaving school at 14, he became first, in Belfast, an apprentice textile engineer, then, in Liverpool, England, an apprentice plumber and gas fitter. At 19, he emigrated to Australia and enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), serving as a medical clerk in Australia, Thailand, and Malaysia. Returning to London six years later, he became the Chief Associate Editor of a variety of men's magazines and then began his long career as a freelance writer.

His published works include a Number One US bestselling biography, THE ILLUSTRATED ELVIS (1975); two bestselling novels, GENESIS (1980) and REVELATION (1982); and a British bestseller biography, EVITA: SAINT OR SINNER? (1996). He is the author of the epic 'Projekt Saucer' series of novels, which remained in print for most of the 1990s. The five novels in the series are: INCEPTION, PHOENIX (nominated for the Arthur C.Clarke Award, 1995), GENESIS, MILLENNIUM, and RESURRECTION.

Harbinson's early Australian novel, THE RUNNING MAN (1967) was turned into a feature film, THE CITY'S EDGE. He has also written for radio and adapted various film scripts into book form.

Harbinson's autobiographical works include THE WRITING GAME: RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OCCASIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR, and ALL AT SEA ON THE GHOST SHIP.

Most of Harbinson's works are now available both as POD books and Kindle ebooks and can be purchased from Amazon and other book-selling Web sites.

W.A.Harbinson has two grown-up children, Shaun and Tanya. Now divorced, he lives alone in a townhouse in West Cork, Ireland. He continues to write.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Laughs Galore!, December 10, 2009
This review is from: Deadlines: A Novel (Paperback)
The comedy of W. A. Harbinson's Deadlines is black, very black indeed. Deadlines satirises the world of 'men's magazines' and is set in the 1970s, when these enjoyed the peak of their popularity. Harbinson skilfully uses his 'inside knowledge' to turn the true world of male interest magazine publishing upside down and inside out to exploit the (at least, then - if not even now) popular perception of this world to the fullest and to its satirically rip-roaringly funniest. He mercilessly takes the proverbial fluid out of the world of men's magazines as well as hysterical Women's Lib and 'political correctness.' The results are hilarious.

Deadlines never titillates or seeks to shock. The use of some good old Anglo-Saxon vocabulary is essential here in order to reflect the milieu, and were it dispensed with would leave the story utterly castrated.

As ever, W. A. Harbinson proves himself the master storyteller. Deadlines is set in a world where men are still men, of a sort anyway - male chauvinists one and all at least to the point where protecting their gonads suddenly takes priority and in itself becomes the cause of their virtual emasculation. Even the absolute terror of the word 'deadlines' is as nothing to their near-paralytic dread of the shapely shock-troopers of an extremist feminist organisation.

One of the most 'politically incorrect' novels since that ghastly concept (re-) appeared in the modern world, W. A. Harbinson's Deadlines is also the funniest black comedy of the late twentieth century and remains unsurpassed. It is a firm favourite here, read in record time, a little more than an afternoon (I am a fast reader), as I just couldn't bear to stop.

More than just compelling, W. A. Harbinson's Deadlines is an absolute must read for anybody with an intact, healthy funny-bone.
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