In Search Of The Holden Piazza

Newcastle Herald

Wednesday November 29, 2006

Brent Davison

IN SEARCH OF THE HOLDEN PIAZZA

Written by: Chris Warr and Joe Kremze

Published by: Allen and Unwin

RRP: $24.95

TWO single, 20-something, Tasmanian public servants take a three-month sabbatical to drive around Australia in a crappy Holden Piazza named Alyce to catalogue Australia's dwindling Piazza population.

Along the way they live the yob life: staying in cheap digs, drinking lots of beer, eating large amounts of junk food, watching Aussie Rules football and TV soapies and showing that, for one of them at least, personal hygiene is not a big issue.

And that's it, the whole story. Ma and Pa Kettle go a-visitin' and we really wish they had just stayed on their island.

The book runs to 220-odd pages but there is not much detail about anything at all except the fluctuating price of Boags beer and the enormity of their benders and follow-up hangovers.

Insight is rare and descriptions of anything other than those things mentioned in the preceding paragraph are pretty much up to Tasmanian public service standards.

Brent Davison

© 2006 Newcastle Herald

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