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THE FRAIL MAN

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Steven Saken made his first million at the age of eighteen. Now on the cusp of the biggest business merger of his career, he is struck down with a mysterious cancer. On the same night he first becomes ill, a Muslim woman is savagely murdered outside his house and logic dictates he is a witness to the crime, although he denies any knowledge. Meanwhile two ghosts of Australia's convict past escape and set about trying to survive in a strange, terrifying new land while in the present - a detective slowly unravels the horrible truth of the woman's death and Saken's fateful illness {{PlayboxLogo}}

  • political, supernatural, drama, thriller
  • 120
  • 10 total
  • 4 female identifying, 6 male identifying
  • 18+
  • young adult, adult
  • Australian Script Centre


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REVIEW: THRILLING EPIC EXPLORES HUMAN FRAILTIES

HELEN THOMSON, THE AGE, 3 MAY 2004

"It's the ambition of Anthony Crowley's The Frail Man that is most exhilarating. It tells three stories that range over two centuries, is fuelled by moral outrage, gives a politically inflected view of contemporary Australia, yet has a universality and scale of reference that makes it epic in its range."

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