The Treatment and the Cure (23 page)

“It seems inappropriate to describe
The Treatment
as ‘promising’. To transmute traumatic experience into literary work of this calibre calls for a maturity and discipline relatively few writers ever achieve.”

The Weekend Australian

“
The Cure
is often comic, with a saving irony and wry humour. It is compelling throughout, tense and intense, and a moving image of a consciousness under siege …”

The Age

The Cure
was awarded the NSW Premier’s Award for Fiction in 1983.

Also by Peter Kocan

P
OETRY

Ceremonies for the lost
(1974)
The other side of the fence
(1975)
Twelve poems
(1975)
Armistice
(1980)
Freedom to breathe
(1985)
Flies of a summer
(1988)
Standing with friends
(1992)
Fighting in the shade
(2000)

A&R Classics

The Treatment first published in 1980
The Cure first published in 1983
Combined Sirius Quality Paperbacks edition first published in 1984
Angus & Robertson edition first published in 1993
This edition published in 2010
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Copyright © Peter Kocan 1980, 1983

The right of Peter Kocan to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him under the
Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000
.

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Copyright Act 1968
, no part may be reproduced, copied, scanned, stored in a retrieval system, recorded, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

Kocan, Peter, 1947–.

The treatment; and, The cure. / Peter Kocan

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