The ace of spades

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  • Published 20100601
  • ISBN: 9781921656163
  • Extent: 264 pp
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Selected for Best Australian Essays 2010

THE ACE OF spades is the highest card in the deck, and is also the death card, used as such by American troops during the war in Vietnam. When an artist places this card in a painting, the viewer does well to take notice. And when a publisher puts on the cover of a book an image of a man with an ace of spades in his breast pocket, the reader must pay attention.

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