This lyrical and devastating new novel from the Stella-Prize winning author of The Strays offers us startling and profound visions of the world and our place in it. Emily Bitto’s debut novel was originally published in Australia in 2014 and subsequently won the Stella Prize, Australia’s highest honor for a work of fiction or nonfiction written by a female author.
We read with increasing horror and denial as we approach the cataclysmic conclusion of Will’s American odyssey, dreading what is galloping towards us, but utterly unable to look away. Wild Abandon is a headlong tumble through the falling world of end-days capitalism, a haunting, hyperreal snapshot of our own strange times. These two men in crisis form an unlikely friendship, but Will has no idea just how close to the edge Wayne truly is. By fate or random chance, Will’s journey takes him deep into the American heartland where he meets Wayne Gage, a fast-living, troubled Vietnam veteran, would-be spirit guide and collector of exotic animals. Landing in the excessive, uncanny-familiar glamour and plenitude of New York City, Will makes a vow to say yes to everything that comes his way. The Strays is an engrossing story of ambition, sacrifice and compromised loyalties from an exciting new talent.In the fall of 2011, a heartbroken young man flees Australia for the USA. Yet it was not Evan, nor the other artists he gathered around him, but his own daughters, who paid the debt that was owing. Looking back on those years later in life, Lily realises that this utopian circle involved the same themes as Evan Trentham’s art: Faustian bargains and terrible recompense spectacular fortunes and falls from grace.
As Lily’s friendship with Eva grows, she becomes infatuated with this makeshift family and longs to truly be a part of it. He and his wife are attempting to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia by inviting other like-minded artists to live and work with them at their family home. About the Author Emily Bitto lives in Melbourne. On her first day at a new school, Lily meets Eva, one of the daughters of the infamous avant-garde painter Evan Trentham. The Strays is an engrossing story of ambition, sacrifice and compromised loyalties from an exciting talent. You can read this before The Strays PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.
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