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[Benjamin Law]

Y & R   B O O K C L U B   F O R   S E P T E M B E R

In September, the Young and the Restless bookclub discusses 'Wake in Fright', the 1961 novel by Australian author Kenneth Cook.

S Y N O P S I S

John Grant, a young teacher, arrives in a rough outback mining town planning to stay overnight. But, on this one hot night in Bundanyabba, Grant decides to go into a smoky, crowded pub. In the company of shadowy strangers, one night stretches to five, in which he discovers gambling, ruins himself financially and plunges headlong toward his own destruction. The educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate park, dirty, red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left ...

A C C O L A D E S 

A true dark classic of Australian literature.

— J.M. Coetzee

A modern classic. This is an unputdownable page-turner written with immense intelligence.

— M.J. Hyland

Cook writes astonishly well, with a fierce economy and a frightening power of visualization.

— The New York Times

D E T A I L S

WHEN: Wednesday 30 September @ 6.30pm (last Wednesday of every month)
WHERE: Avid Reader, 193 Boundary Street, West End
WOW: Regardless of whether you're able to attend bookclub, all Y&R mailing list members receive a 10% discount off all bookclub titles until the end of that month. Just tell the friendly Avid staff members you're a member.

C O M I N G   U P

OCTOBER: Zeitoun (Dave Eggers)

NOVEMBER: A Gate at the Stairs (Lorrie Moore)

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