Just in time for your Christmas shopping: Guardian Australia’s critics and staff pick out the best of the best
In the stasis of lockdown, longtime friends Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan began to record their conversations. From those hours of wild and generous talk, O’Hagan has extracted an extraordinary dialogue.of this book: “a lament, a celebration, a howl, a secular prayer”. Faith, Hope and Carnage demands to be heard. Get the audiobook and surrender to Cave’s ferocious eloquence, his creative velocity.
With caustic wit, Dalla Rosa performs a kind of surgery on his characters, splitting them wide open to reveal something exciting and vivid, ugly and depraved. –Losing Face should be a hard read, traversing the big themes of grief, toxic masculinity, identity and sexual assault. But instead it’s gripping, and absolutely full of heart.
Joey and Elaine balance each other perfectly – both are gloriously flawed and full of life. At sentence level, Losing Face is full of evocative imagery, but it’s the characters that really make it a stand out, and the thrill of being invited to snoop on the intimate realities of a family falling apart. –It would’ve been so easy for Heather Rose to take the events of her life and write a straightforward “trauma memoir” – a genre. In her hands it would have still been a great book – but instead she has written something truly original.
This is journey through her physical life, yes – true tragedy, ghosts, heroin! – but in tandem is the journey through her spiritual life. You finish feeling so much more open to the world, even braver, after spending such intimate time with Rose. –
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