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Andrew McGahan

Andrew McGahan was born in Dalby, Queensland, but has lived and worked mostly in Brisbane. His first novel Praise (1992) was winner of The Australian/Vogel Literary Award. Since then his writing includes an award winning stage play (Bait) and the AFI award winning screenplay for the movie version of Praise. His second novel was the prequel 1988 (1995), and his third novel Last Drinks (2000) was shortlisted for multiple awards, including The Age Book of the Year and The Courier Mail Book of the Year, and won a Ned Kelly award for crime writing. In 2004 The White Earth was published and went on to win the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the South East Asia and South Pacific region, The Age Book of the Year (Fiction) and the Courier Mail Book of the Year Award. It was also shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards that same year.

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Title:: 1988
Written by:: Andrew McGahan
Read by:: David Tredinnick
Format:: Unabridged CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 9
Duration:: 10 hours 29 minutes
Published:: April 28 2019
Available Date:: April 28 2019
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9781489494771
Genres:: Fiction; Australian Fiction; Literary Fiction
Publisher:: ABC Audio

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In McGahan's prequel to his bestselling debut, Praise, Gordon, failed writer and bottleshop boy, feels his life is going nowhere and heads north with Wayne in search of their rightful place in the culture of a nation.

'A lighthouse. A weather station, thousands of miles away. For six months. I drank steadily. With alcohol it all made sense.' It's the Bicentennial year and for Gordon - failed writer and bottleshop boy - it seems his life is going nowhere. It's time to escape. From his overcrowded house, from Brisbane, from Expo 88, from everything. He stumbles into Wayne who has connections in Darwin and the promise of work. So the two of them head north toward swamps and crocodiles, in search of inspiration, and of their rightful place in the culture of Australia.

'Untamed and frankly shocking. When 1988 is dismissed as "another" young man's angsting book by reviewers deaf to the stylistic magic of this book, it makes the joke even funnier.'
The Age

'The pre-eminent Australian road novel.'
The Australian

'A fiendish and eventful psychological novel ... hugely satisfying.'
The New York Times Book Review