TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carman,Luke
TI  - An elegant young man /Luke Carman
SN  - 9781922146540
AV  - PR3339 .E444 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Artamon, N.S.W.
PB  - Giramondo Publishing
KW  - Families
KW  - Australia
KW  - Sydney (N.S.W.)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - For a long time Western Sydney has been the political flash-point of the nation, but it has been absent from Australian literature. Luke Carman's first book of fiction is about to change all that: a collection of monologues and stories which tells how it is on Australia's cultural frontier. His young, self-conscious but determined hero navigates his way through the complications of his divorced family, and an often perilous social world, with its Fobs, Lebbos, Greek, Serbs, Grubby Boys and scumbag Aussies, friends and enemies. He loves Whitman and Kerouac, Leonard Cohen and Henry Rollins, is awkward with girls, and has an imaginary friend called Tom. His sensitivity in a tough environment makes life difficult for him --
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