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Lucky Boy

Kevin Kopelson, 3 April 1997

Shine 
directed by Scott Hicks.
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Shine: The Screenplay 
by Jan Sardi.
Bloomsbury, 176 pp., £7.99, January 1997, 0 7475 3173 0Show More
The Book of David 
by Beverley Eley.
HarperCollins, 285 pp., £8.99, March 1997, 0 207 19105 0Show More
Love You to Bits and Pieces: Life with David Helfgott 
by Gillian Helfgott, with Alissa Tanskaya.
Penguin, 337 pp., £6.99, January 1997, 0 14 026546 5Show More
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“... or Shine? Gillian Helfgott’s Love You to Bits and Pieces would indicate there isn’t. Beverley Eley’s The Book of David, however, offers a more accurate – and less objectionable – account of the man. (Eley does endorse a Christocentric mystification that doesn’t square with Helfgott’s Judaism, but ...”

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