Full name: Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers

Author: Ryan O'Neill Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781863958639 1863958630

Absurd, original and highly addictive ... In Their Brilliant Careers, Ryan O'Neill has written a hilarious novel in the guise of sixteen biographies of (invented) Australian writers. Meet Rachel Deverall, who discovers the secret female source of the great literature of our time - and pays a terrible price for her discovery. Meet Rand Washington, hugely popular sci-fi author (of Whiteman of Cor) and holder of extreme views on race and gender. Meet Addison Tiller, the master of the bush yarn, "The Chekhov of Coolabah", who has never travelled outside Sydney. Their Brilliant Careers is a playful set of stories, linked in many ways, which together form a memorable whole. It is a wonderful comic tapestry of the writing life, and a large-scale parody in which every detail adds to the humour of the overall picture. Unpredictable and intriguing, Their Brilliant Careers takes Australian writing in a whole new direction. Similar books: Woman of the Inner Sea by Thomas Keneally Without a Backward Glance by Kate Veitch Pobby And Dingan by Ben Rice The Far Country by Nevil Shute The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser Drylands by Thea Astley Beyond the Black Stump by Nevil Shute Four Fires by Bryce Courtenay Carpentaria by Alexis Wright An Open Swimmer by Tim Winton The Dead Heart by Douglas Kennedy Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany The Good Parents by Joan London The Cardboard Crown by Martin Boyd All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde Empire Falls by Richard Russo Anne of Windy Poplars by Lucy Maud Montgomery The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson