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Gordon wants out. A failed writer and "bottleshop boy," he wants to escape from his overcrowded house, from Brisbane, from the bicentennial, from everything. He stumbles into Wayne, who has connections and the promise of work, and they head north. Without a map. Their destination: Cape Don, a weather station on a secluded peninsula, where they hope to find solitude and artistic inspiration.

What they don't realize is that they'll be stuck in a run-down shack amid a crocodile-infested swamp, on the most isolated point of the Australian continent, with only a few unimpressed locals for company. Gordon and Wayne travel thousands of miles and still don't get anywhere, but their hilarious descent into madness, described in McGahan's deadpan prose, gives us a new understanding of youth, alienation, and failed dreams.

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St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Pages
314

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Subjects
Fiction, Young men, Mentally ill, Artists, Authors, Fiction, humorous, Australia, fiction, Artists, fiction, Authors, fiction, Fiction, humorous, general, Psychology, Travel
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Australia

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1988
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1988
2005, Allen & Unwin
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1988
March 15, 1998, St. Martin's Griffin
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1988
1997, St. Martin's Press
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1988
December 15, 1996, St. Martin's Griffin
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1995, Allen & Unwin
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Dewey Decimal Class
823
Library of Congress
PR9619.3.M3234 A15 1997, PR9619.3.M3234A15

The Physical Object

Pagination
314 p. ;
Number of pages
314

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1004770M
Internet Archive
19880000mcga
ISBN 10
0312150431
LCCN
96044519
OCLC/WorldCat
35723591
Library Thing
272580
Goodreads
3793179

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