Un autore australiano le cui opere sono rinomate per la loro atmosfera distintiva e l'acuta intuizione sulla psiche umana. I suoi romanzi approfondiscono frequentemente temi di isolamento, identità e incontri con la natura selvaggia. Il suo stile di scrittura è caratterizzato da una cruda onestà e da un talento nel trascinare i lettori in narrazioni avvincenti. Il suo impatto sulla letteratura australiana contemporanea è innegabile.
I do not like koalas. They are nasty, cross, stupid creatures without a friendly bone in their bodies. Their social habits are appalling - the males are always beating their fellows up and stealing their females. They have disgusting defensive mechanisms. Lice infest their fur. They snore. Their resemblance to cuddly toys is a base deceit. There is nothing to commend them.On top of all that, a koala once tried to do me a very nasty mischief.
The controller stood back. ‘Right,’ he said. ‘Spin ‘em!’ The man flipped the piece of wood and the coins spun up into the air above his head and dropped down on to the carpet. There was silence. Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant’s journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers. This edition also includes an Afterword by film critic, David Stratton. Wake in Fright was made into a film in 1971, arguably the greatest film ever made in Australia. It starred Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, and Jack Thompson in his first screen role. Lost for many years, the restored film was re-released to acclaim in 2009.
A young man driving from Sydney to Adelaide decides to detour into the desert. He turns his hatchback onto a notoriously dangerous track bisecting uninhabited stone-covered flats. Not far along the road a distraught young woman stumbles from the scrub. She has just escaped the clutches of a terrifying creature. Now this desert-dwelling creature has her jeep. Her axe. And her scent ..