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Wild abandon / Emily Bitto.
Van Pelt Library PR9619.4.B558 W55 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bitto, Emily, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Australians--United States--Fiction.
- Australians.
- Veterans--Fiction.
- Veterans.
- Friendship--Fiction.
- Friendship.
- Australian fiction.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Road fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 435 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2021.
- Summary:
- In the fall of 2011, a heartbroken young man flees Australia for the USA. Landing in the excessive, uncanny-familiar glamour and plenitude of New York City, Will makes a vow to say yes to everything that comes his way. By fate or random chance, Will's journey takes him deep into the American heartland where he meets Wayne Gage, a fast-living, troubled Vietnam veteran, would-be spirit guide and collector of exotic animals. These two men in crisis form an unlikely friendship, but Will has no idea just how close to the edge Wayne truly is. Wild Abandon is a headlong tumble through the falling world of end-days capitalism, a haunting, hyperreal snapshot of our own strange times. We read with increasing horror and denial as we approach the catalclysmic conclusion of Will's American odyssey, dreading what is galloping towards us, but utterly unable to look away.
- ISBN:
- 9781760879136
- 1760879134
- OCLC:
- 1259011856
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