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Their Brilliant Careers
£8.99
Absurd, original and highly addictive . . .
In Their Brilliant Careers, Ryan O'Neill has written a hilarious novel in they guise of sixteen biographies of (invented) Australian writers.
Meet Rachel Deverall, who unearthed the secret source of the great literature of our time and aid a terrible price for her discovery. Meet Rand Washington, hugely popular sci-fi author and inveterate racist. Meet Addison Tiller, master of the bush yarn and memorialised as “the Chekhov of Coolabah”, who never travelled outside Sydney.
Their Brilliant Careers is a playful set of stories, linked in many ways, which together form a memorable whole. This unpredictable and intriguing work has echoes of Perec, Borges and Nabokov and was shortlisted for Australia's biggest literary prize.
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