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The Life (novel) "PT" (Peter Townend) and "Tink" bearing a resemblance to Wayne "Rabbit" Bartholomew. "The Guardian" wrote "If Winton is an aria, Knox is early Rolling Stones", ""The Life" confirms what "The Literary Review" has known all along – 'Knox is, quite simply, a fabulous writer.'" Christos Tsiolkas, author of the best selling novel "The Slap" wrote ""The Life", is alternately evocative and lacerating, tender and unflinching, a gloriously honest, brutal and moving story of a man who was at the top of his game and then pissed it all away". The Life (novel) The Life is a novel by the Australian