Andrew McGahan, Author . Soho $25 (376p) ISBN 978-1-56947-417-4
Playing with genre expectations, McGahan's layered, impressive book (after 1988
and Praise
) begins as a child's tale, takes on shades of the horror story and, in its most surprising shift, becomes a tragedy of Australian history. Set in...
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Andrew McGahan, Author St. Martin's Press $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-18754-5
The first of McGahan's novels to be published in his native Australia (but, in narrative terms, a sequel to his American debut, 1988), this engaging, ill-starred slacker romance gives us the second chapter in the life of asthmatic, 23-year-old...
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Andrew McGahan, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $19.95 (279p) ISBN 978-0-88184-938-7
Winner of the 1992 Vogel Award for best Australian first novel, this tale of 20-something disassociation compares favorably to American fiction of the same genre. As the story begins, narrator Gordon Buchanan quits his job as a beer-stacker at a...
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Andrew McGahan, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-15043-3
FYI: Praise won the Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Book in the Pacific Region.
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