Bitin' Back: Edition 2
Melissa Lucashenko · Vivienne Cleven
xuño de 2024 · Univ. of Queensland Press
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When the Blackouts' star player Nevil Dooley wakes one morning to don a frock and 'eyeshada', his mother's idle days at the bingo hall are gone forever. Mystified and clueless, single parent Mavis takes to bush-cunning and fast footwork to unravel the mystery behind this sudden change of face. Funny and cleverly covert, too, this is a truthful rendering of small-town prejudice and racist attitudes. Hilarity prevails while desperation builds in the race to save Nevil from the savage consequences of his discovery in a town where a career in footy is a young black man' s only escape. Neither pig shoots, bust-ups at the Two Dogs, bare-knuckle sessions in the shed nor even a police siege can slow the countdown on this human timebomb.
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Melissa Lucashenko is a Goorie (Aboriginal) author of Bundjalung and European heritage. Her first novel was published in 1997 and since then her work has received acclaim in many literary awards. Her sixth novel, Too Much Lip, won the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Queensland Premier' s Award for a work of State Significance. It was also shortlisted for eight more Australian literary awards including the Prime Minister' s Literary Award for Fiction and the Stella Prize. She writes about ordinary Australians and the extraordinary lives they lead. Her latest novel is Edenglassie. Vivienne Cleven was born in 1968 in Surat and grew up in western Queensland, homeland of her Aboriginal heritage. She left school at thirteen to work with her father as a jillaroo: building fences, mustering cattle, and working at various jobs on stations throughout Queensland and New South Wales. In 2000, Vivienne's manuscript Bitin' Back won the David Unaipon Award. She has published articles and fiction in anthologies, magazines and journals. Her second novel was Her Sister' s Eye. Vivienne lives in the bush, is studying her PhD and is working on her latest novel.
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