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kimswhims 's review for:
Boy Swallows Universe
by Trent Dalton
Excellent! Boy can this boy write words!
"Your end is a dead blue wren" gives a 'heads up' to this astonishing original novel.
Underbelly of BrisVegas Australian crime and struggle-town 'to kill a mocking bird' coming of age, all rolled up with 1980s Queensland maroon ribbons and references.
Imperfect lives wrapped in perfect pointed urban prose, propelled by a compelling, humorous and heart-wrenching story.
There's a lot of Eli Bell in Trent Dalton, the journo who writes in technicolour but really can turn his hand to crime fiction too.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say, this needs to nominated for The Booker, The Miles Franklin, The PM and Premier Awards and finally to light up on the screen. I just adored it!
XXVIII
With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow,
And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow;
And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd —
"I came like Water, and like Wind I go".
Into this Universe............
Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat
"Your end is a dead blue wren" gives a 'heads up' to this astonishing original novel.
Underbelly of BrisVegas Australian crime and struggle-town 'to kill a mocking bird' coming of age, all rolled up with 1980s Queensland maroon ribbons and references.
Imperfect lives wrapped in perfect pointed urban prose, propelled by a compelling, humorous and heart-wrenching story.
There's a lot of Eli Bell in Trent Dalton, the journo who writes in technicolour but really can turn his hand to crime fiction too.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say, this needs to nominated for The Booker, The Miles Franklin, The PM and Premier Awards and finally to light up on the screen. I just adored it!
XXVIII
With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow,
And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow;
And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd —
"I came like Water, and like Wind I go".
Into this Universe............
Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat