A Book About Things That Didn’t Happen / Hollow Days — Phil Doyle / Joel Spencer

Title: A Book About Things That Didn’t Happen / Hollow Days — Phil Doyle / Joel Spencer

Author: Phil Doyle / Joel Spencer

Publisher: merge media

Format: Paperback

Edition: First published in Australia in 1998

ISBN: 0958566208 / 9780958566209

Condition: Second-hand. Light shelf wear, minor edge and corner wear, and light handling marks to the covers. Pages appear clean from the photos. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

This unusual Australian small-press volume brings together two short novels: A Book About Things That Didn’t Happen by Phil Doyle and Hollow Days by Joel Spencer.

Phil Doyle’s story follows a narrator reflecting on love, abandonment and inner collapse, with local Australian settings and poetic fragments woven through the prose. Joel Spencer’s Hollow Days centres on a group of hedonistic undergraduate students trying to fill the emptiness of summer holidays with drinking, drifting and increasingly destructive behaviour.