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Author : Isabel Waidner
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781644452141

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Sterling Karat Gold by Isabel Waidner Pdf

Like Franz Kafka’s The Trial for the post-truth era, at once “surreal, polemical, and fun” (The Telegraph). Sterling Beckenbauer is plunged into a terrifying and nonsensical world one morning when they are attacked, then unfairly arrested, in their neighborhood in London. With the help of their friends, Sterling hosts a trial of their own in order to exonerate themselves and to hold the powers that be to account. Sterling Karat Gold, in the words of Kamila Shamsie, is “a madly brilliant and deeply sane novel that reveals surrealism as possibly the most effective way of talking about the political moment we find ourselves in.” In it, Isabel Waidner concocts a world replete with bullfighters, high fashion, DIY theater, the Beach Boys, and time-traveling spaceships. The acclaimed winner of the 2021 Goldsmiths Prize for fiction that breaks the mold and extends the possibilities of the form, this novel explores the phantasmagoric nature of contemporary life, especially for nonbinary migrants, and daringly revises how solidarity and justice might be sought and won. Sterling Karat Gold couldn’t be a better North American introduction to a writer with an irresistible style and unforgettable vision.

Author : Meanjin Quarterly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0522877494

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Meanjin Vol 80, No 4 by Meanjin Quarterly Pdf

The December issue of Meanjin is titled- Words. It features a special series of non-fiction pieces in which Australian writers respond to one-word titles, including- Sarah Krasnostein on Home Tony Birch on (Dis)loyalty Bruce Pascoe on Capital Kate Holden on Elements Christos Tsiolkas on Resentment Maxine Beneba-Clarke on Certainty Scott Ludlum on Defiance Bernard Keane on Betrayal Anna Spargo-Ryan on Joy Mandy Ord on Lost Dan Dixon on Hunger Omar Sakr on Jab (Sha'ara) Karen Wyld on Soar Plus- Henry Reynolds on the Dark Emu culture wars, Fatima Measham on what it means to love animals, Daniel Nour on the white gaze in literary criticism, and more essays from Claire G. Coleman, Ben Walter, Soon-Tzu Speechley and Peter Craven. There's new fiction from Arnold Zable, Anneliz Erese, Carol Lefevre and Ashley Goldberg, a lively review section and a dozen new poems.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Australian literature
ISBN : UOM:39015062061752

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Meanjin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Australian literature
ISBN : UOM:39015035358699

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Meanjin Quarterly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Australian literature
ISBN : UCAL:B3914161

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Meanjin Papers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Helen Garner
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553387469

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Monkey Grip by Helen Garner Pdf

The novel that launched the career of one of Australia’s greatest writers, following the doomed infatuations of a young, single mother, enthralled by the excesses of Melbourne's late-70s counterculture The name Helen Garner commands near-universal acclaim. A master novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, Garner is best known for her frank, unsparing, and intricate portraits of Australian life, often drawn from the pages of her own journals and diaries. Now, in a newly available US edition, comes the disruptive debut that established Garner's masterful and quietly radical literary voice. Set in Australia in the late 1970s, Monkey Grip follows single mother and writer Nora as she navigates the tumultuous cityscape of Melbourne’s bohemian underground, often with her young daughter Gracie in tow. When Nora falls in love with the flighty Javo, she becomes snared in the web of his addiction. And as their tenuous relationship disintegrates, Nora struggles to wean herself off a love that feels impossible to live without. When it first published in 1977, Monkey Grip was both a sensation and a lightning rod. While some critics praised the upstart Garner for her craft, many scorned her gritty depictions of the human body and all its muck, her frankness about sex and drugs and the mess of motherhood, and her unabashed use of her own life as inspiration. Today, such criticism feels old-fashioned and glaringly gendered, and Monkey Grip is considered a modern masterpiece. A seminal novel of Australia’s turbulent 1970s and all it entailed—communal households, music, friendships, children, love, drugs, and sex—Monkey Grip now makes its long-overdue American debut.

Author : Clement Byrne Christesen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Australian literature
ISBN : UOM:39015035358608

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Meanjin Papers by Clement Byrne Christesen Pdf

Author : Meanjin Quarterly
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780522875737

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Meanjin Vol 78, No 4 by Meanjin Quarterly Pdf

On the afternoon of first contact Cook’s crew shot two Gwaegal men who opposed them from the shore. Cook observed, correctly, all they seem’d to want was for us to be gone. In the December issue of Meanjin Paul Daley takes a long look at the complex legacy of James Cook. In a timely essay ahead of the Cook sestercentennial in 2020, Daley digs deep into the many and conflicting strands of this Australian colonial foundation story. Was Cook a blameless master navigator? Or should he be connected intimately to the dispossession of First Nations peoples that followed his voyage of 1770? Also in this issue, writing from: Gabrielle Chan, Bri Lee, Greg Jericho, Tony Birch, Gregory Day, Robbie Arnott, Ruby Hamad, Mesh Tennakoon, Carmel Bird, Oliver Mestitz, Emma Marie Jones, Belinda Rule, Anthony Lawrence, Geoff Page, Jaya Savige and more.

Author : Rowena Lennox
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781743327326

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Dingo Bold by Rowena Lennox Pdf

Dingo Bold is a thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between people and dingoes. At its heart is Rowena Lennox's encounter with a dingo on the beach on K’gari (Fraser Island), a young male she nicknames Bold. Struck by this experience, and by the intense, often polarised opinions expressed in public conversations about dingo conservation and control, she sets out to understand the complex relationship between humans and dingoes. Weaving together ecological data, interviews with people connected personally and professionally with K’gari’s dingoes, and Lennox's expansive reading of literary, historical and scientific accounts, Dingo Bold considers what we know about the history of relations between dingoes and humans, and what preconceptions shape our attitudes today. Do we see dingoes as native wildlife or feral dogs? Wild or domesticated animals? A tourist attraction or a threat? And how do our answers to these questions shape our interactions with them? Dingo Bold is both a moving memoir of love and loss through Lennox's observations of the natural world and an important contribution to wider conversations about conservation and animal welfare. "Combining natural history, Indigenous culture, folklore, memoir, and environmental politics, this is an elegantly written and affectionate tribute to Australia's most maligned and least understood native animal." Jacqueline Kent "Fuelled by empathy, curiosity and passion, and informed by research, data and observation, this moving and compelling book speaks to the heart and to the head. Rowena Lennox poses questions about our relationship with dingoes — and our role in the natural world — that are as bold and lively as her subject." Debra Adelaide

Author : Tony Birch
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780702255700

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Ghost River by Tony Birch Pdf

The highly anticipated new novel from the Miles Franklin-shortlisted author of Blood ‘You find yourself down at the bottom of the river, for some it's time to give into her. But other times, young fellas like you two, you got to fight your way back. Show the river you got courage and is ready to live.' The river is a place of history and secrets. For Ren and Sonny, two unlikely friends, it's a place of freedom and adventure. For a group of storytelling vagrants, it's a refuge. And for the isolated daughter of a cult reverend, it's an escape. Each time they visit, another secret slips into its ancient waters. But change and trouble are coming – to the river and to the lives of those who love it. Who will have the courage to fight and survive and what will be the cost?

Author : Alice Bishop
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925774603

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A Constant Hum by Alice Bishop Pdf

A young and exciting new literary voice, emerging from one of Australia’s worst natural disasters

Author : Meanjin Quarterly
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780522878479

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Meanjin Vol 81, No 1 by Meanjin Quarterly Pdf

' . . . embracing anger is a political act. This is not a personal project but a social one-being passive and perpetually afraid of your power reinforces the status quo, and I am no longer interested in that. Anger is a complex emotion, which is exactly why my child-brain suppresses it, and exactly why we as a society are afraid of it. Anger teaches us that not everything has to be either/or.' In a profound and personal essay, Lucia Osborne-Crowley writes on learning to embrace anger as a multi-faceted emotion. Anger can be an act of caring, anger can be a force for personal power, and inter-personal good; anger, she says, 'can sit alongside love and hope and connection rather than being their opposite.' Guy Rundle studies the rise of the Knowledge Class, the laptop tapping workers at the core of the west's new economy, and details the challenge — and opportunity — this growing group poses for traditional progressive politics. Na'ama Carlin found her first pregnancy challenging, a minefield of existential and practical complication. Then she was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer. Author Alice Pung writes on the vexed politics of 'diversity' in the Australian publishing industry. Futurist Mark Pesce is anxious about the social implications of the Facebook 'metaverse', but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Critic and curator Chris McAuliffe looks at the hidden and very complicated history of the Australian flag. El Gibbs writes on the hidden pandemic: of living with both covid and disability. Other essays from Declan Fry, Martin Langford, Gemma Carey, Madeleine Gray, Jill Giese, Bruce Buchan and more. Memoir from Alice Bishop, Alexander Wells, Dominic Gordon and Hannah Preston. New fiction from Jennifer Mills, Ouyang Yu and Christopher Raja. New poetry from Adam Aitken, Lucy Dougan, Ashleigh Synnott, Stephen Edgar, Svetlana Sterlin, Junie Huang and more. Reviews from Millie Bayliss, Imogen Dewey, Hasib Hourani, Thabani Tshuma and Rosie Ofori Ward.

Author : GB Tran
Publisher : Ballantine Group
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780345544490

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Vietnamerica by GB Tran Pdf

A superb new graphic memoir in which an inspired artist/storyteller reveals the road that brought his family to where they are today: Vietnamerica GB Tran is a young Vietnamese American artist who grew up distant from (and largely indifferent to) his family’s history. Born and raised in South Carolina as a son of immigrants, he knew that his parents had fled Vietnam during the fall of Saigon. But even as they struggled to adapt to life in America, they preferred to forget the past—and to focus on their children’s future. It was only in his late twenties that GB began to learn their extraordinary story. When his last surviving grandparents die within months of each other, GB visits Vietnam for the first time and begins to learn the tragic history of his family, and of the homeland they left behind. In this family saga played out in the shadow of history, GB uncovers the root of his father’s remoteness and why his mother had remained in an often fractious marriage; why his grandfather had abandoned his own family to fight for the Viet Cong; why his grandmother had had an affair with a French soldier. GB learns that his parents had taken harrowing flight from Saigon during the final hours of the war not because they thought America was better but because they were afraid of what would happen if they stayed. They entered America—a foreign land they couldn’t even imagine—where family connections dissolved and shared history was lost within a span of a single generation. In telling his family’s story, GB finds his own place in this saga of hardship and heroism. Vietnamerica is a visually stunning portrait of survival, escape, and reinvention—and of the gift of the American immigrants’ dream, passed on to their children. Vietnamerica is an unforgettable story of family revelation and reconnection—and a new graphic-memoir classic.

Author : Roger Osborne
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781743327760

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The Life of Such is Life by Roger Osborne Pdf

Since its publication in 1903, Joseph Furphy’s Such is Life has become established as an Australian classic. But which version of the novel is the authoritative text, and what does its history reveal about Australian cultural life? From Furphy’s handwritten manuscript through numerous editions, a controversial abridgement for the British market (condemned by A.D. Hope as a “mutilation”), and periods of obscurity and rediscovery, the text has been reshaped and repackaged by many hands. Furphy’s first editors at the Bulletin diluted his socialist message and “corrected” his Australian slang to create a more marketable book. Later, literary players including Vance and Nettie Palmer, Miles Franklin, Kate Baker and Angus & Robertson all took an interest in how Furphy’s work should be published. In a fascinating piece of literary detective work, Osborne traces the book’s journey and shows how economic and cultural forces helped to shape the novel we read today.

Author : Ross Garnaut
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781743821176

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Superpower by Ross Garnaut Pdf

The fog of Australian politics on climate change has obscured a fateful reality: Australia has the potential to be an economic superpower of the future post-carbon world. We have unparalleled renewable energy resources. We also have the necessary scientific skills. Australia could be the natural home for an increasing proportion of global industry. But how do we make this happen? In this crisp, compelling book, Australia’s leading thinker about climate and energy policy offers a road map for progress, covering energy, transport, agriculture, the international scene and more. Rich in ideas and practical optimism, Superpower is a crucial, timely contribution to this country’s future.