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Praise (Allen & Unwin original fiction) (Paperback)

by Andrew McGahan (Author)
3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Allen & Unwin (19 Jun 1992)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1863732454
  • ISBN-13: 978-1863732451
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,019,070 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Bestselling Vogel prize-winning novel about sex, drugs and alcohol, and about being young in Australia

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4.0 out of 5 stars Tough, sordid, good, 19 Jul 2009
This review is from: Praise (Paperback)
Sex, booze, drugs, DSS in Brisbane in 1990s. Oz story. Tough and sordid -
very good. Written before its prequel 1988.
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5.0 out of 5 stars That's all there was.., 25 Feb 2008
This review is from: Praise (Paperback)
I guess it either grabs you or it doesn't.. but passages of this book have stayed with me for years. It captured an age, a time and told honestly the destructive nature of relationships.
Andrew writes in a compelling sparse style as though he is sitting beside you telling a story. I can't see the author behind the fiction.
Great book
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1.0 out of 5 stars Is that all there is?, 14 Nov 2001
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The book allegedly won the award for best Australian book of 1991-it must have been a slow year... No matter how you try and dress it up with meaning and hyperbole, this is a book about an unemployed slacker having lots and lots of graphic loveless sex and getting drunk/high a lot. It gets pretty old pretty quick, and there's little to take from it. The subject of lost youth in the modern world has been vividly and effectively portrayed in Scotland by writers like Irvine Welsh and Alan Warner, and in England and America in countless novels, McGahan seems to be striving for the same effect here, but it's not nearly as well written or interesting. The loser slacker protagonist (Gordon) is introduced in 1988, which has a lot less sex, and is slightly more interesting as a whole.
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