SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 ALS GOLD MEDAL How to Be Gay and nowhe has. Carman's style is packed with thought and energy: it captures thevoices of the street, and conveys fear and anger, beauty and affection, with a restlessintensity.
Fora long time Western Sydney has been the political flash-point of the nation,but it has been absent from Australian literature. Luke Carman's first book offiction changeS all that: a collection of monologues and stories whichtells it how it is on Australia's cultural frontier. His young, self-consciousbut determined hero navigates his way through the complications of his divorcedfamily, and an often perilous social world, with its Fobs, Lebbbos, Greek, Serbs,Grubby Boys and scumbag Aussies, friends and enemies. He loves Whitman andKerouac, Leonard Cohen and Henry Rollins, is awkward with girls, and has aninvisible friend called Tom. His neighbour Wessam tells him he should write abook called How to Be Gay and nowhe has. Carman's style is packed with thought and energy: it captures thevoices of the street, and conveys fear and anger, beauty and affection, with a restlessintensity.
"An Elegant Young Man is street poetry for contemporary Sydney, and it demonstrates what is most exciting and innovative in Australia's emerging writers." - Sydney Morning Herald review
Winner of the UTS Glenda Adams award for new writing at the 2015 NSW Premier's Literary Awards
Fora long time Western Sydney has been the political flash-point of the nation,but it has been absent from Australian literature. Luke Carman's first book offiction changeS all that: a collection of monologues and stories whichtells it how it is on Australia's cultural frontier. His young, self-consciousbut determined hero navigates his way through the complications of his divorcedfamily, and an often perilous social world, with its Fobs, Lebbbos, Greek, Serbs,Grubby Boys and scumbag Aussies, friends and enemies. He loves Whitman andKerouac, Leonard Cohen and Henry Rollins, is awkward with girls, and has aninvisible friend called Tom. His neighbour Wessam tells him he should write abook called How to Be Gay and nowhe has. Carman's style is packed with thought and energy: it captures thevoices of the street, and conveys fear and anger, beauty and affection, with a restlessintensity.
"An Elegant Young Man is street poetry for contemporary Sydney, and it demonstrates what is most exciting and innovative in Australia's emerging writers." - Sydney Morning Herald review
Winner of the UTS Glenda Adams award for new writing at the 2015 NSW Premier's Literary Awards
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