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THEIR BRILLIANT CAREERS
The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers
Absurd, original and highly addictive.
In THEIR BRILLIANT CAREERS, Ryan O'Neill has written a hilarious novel in the guise of sixteen biographies of (invented) Australian writers. Meet Rachel Deverall, who discovers the secret female source of the great literature of our time - and pays a terrible price for her discovery. Meet Rand Washington, hugely popular sci-fi author (of Whiteman of Cor) and holder of extreme views on race and gender. Meet Addison Tiller, the master of the bush yarn, The Chekhov of Coolabah, who has never travelled outside Sydney.
THEIR BRILLIANT CAREERS is a playful set of stories, linked in many ways, which together form a memorable whole. It is a wonderful comic tapestry of the writing life, and a large-scale parody in which every detail adds to the humour of the overall picture.
Ryan O'Neill is the author of The Weight of a Human Heart, which was published by Old Street in the UK and St Martin's in the USA. His fiction has appeared in The Best Australian Stories, The Sleepers Almanac, Meanjin, New Australian Stories, Wet Ink, Etchings and Westerly.
In THEIR BRILLIANT CAREERS, Ryan O'Neill has written a hilarious novel in the guise of sixteen biographies of (invented) Australian writers. Meet Rachel Deverall, who discovers the secret female source of the great literature of our time - and pays a terrible price for her discovery. Meet Rand Washington, hugely popular sci-fi author (of Whiteman of Cor) and holder of extreme views on race and gender. Meet Addison Tiller, the master of the bush yarn, The Chekhov of Coolabah, who has never travelled outside Sydney.
THEIR BRILLIANT CAREERS is a playful set of stories, linked in many ways, which together form a memorable whole. It is a wonderful comic tapestry of the writing life, and a large-scale parody in which every detail adds to the humour of the overall picture.
Ryan O'Neill is the author of The Weight of a Human Heart, which was published by Old Street in the UK and St Martin's in the USA. His fiction has appeared in The Best Australian Stories, The Sleepers Almanac, Meanjin, New Australian Stories, Wet Ink, Etchings and Westerly.
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Published 2016-08-01 by Black Inc. |