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Lech Blaine

Australian Gospel

A Family Saga

Lech Blaine

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Black Inc
05 November 2024
Memoirs; Biography - Australian
From one of Australia's most brilliant writers, a dark comedy about the tangled fates of two couples and the children trapped between them
'Wild applause. Brave, funny and true.' David Marr

'This is the new benchmark for the quintessential Australian epic. I lost count of how many times I laughed and cried.' Grace Tame
Michael and Mary Shelley are Christian fanatics who loathe their fellow Australians - especially their 'reckless indulgence of alcohol and obsession with idiotic ball sports'. Lenore and Tom Blaine are working-class Queensland publicans raising a large family in a raucous, loving, sports-obsessed home.

There's just one problem. Lenore and Tom are foster parents to three of Michael and Mary's children, who were removed from the Shelleys as infants. And the Shelleys are prepared to do anything to get them back. Anything.

Australian Gospel is the true story of Lech Blaine's family, a stranger-than-fiction tale that is heartbreaking, hilarious and altogether astonishing.
'A rollicking, insightful and moving account of the everyday heavens and hells we make for ourselves, and each other.' Sarah Krasnostein

'What makes a real family? Whose rights should triumph in battles over a child? Which inheritances can we escape, and which will haunt us forever? All this is explored in an irreverently joyful family saga you'll never forget.' Charlotte Wood
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Imprint:   Black Inc
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 154mm,  Spine: 30mm
Weight:   476g
ISBN:   9781760643973
ISBN 10:   1760643971
Pages:   352
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Lech Blaine is the author of the memoir Car Crash and the Quarterly Essay Top Blokes. His writing has appeared in The Monthly, Guardian Australia, The Best Australian Essays, Griffith Review, Kill Your Darlings and Meanjin. He was an inaugural recipient of a Griffith Review Queensland Writing Fellowship and is the Charles Perkins Centre 2023 Writer in Residence.

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