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Losing It

Moira Burke

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English
Text Publishing Company
29 May 2017
A powerful reflection of early 80s working-class Melbourne, Losing It is set in a time of tight jeans, blue eyeshadow and Countdown - and of risky underage sex and drugs

In the 1980s in the Melbourne suburb of Fawkner, Josie's father is drinking himself to an ugly and appalling death. Josie's mother is a factory machinist, bringing home piecework to keep the family afloat.

And Josie is surviving, or not-self-destructive sex, excessive alcohol, drugs, brutalised friendships. But her internal monologue-intense, immediate and raw-reveals a heartbreaking portrait of an intelligent young woman desperately looking for a way to make sense of her life, grappling with her feelings of repulsion and love for her father and her longing to be loved.

First published in 1998, Losing It is a vivid and visceral account of 1980s working-class Melbourne and a coming-of-age story that is both familiar and unique, shocking and intimate.

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Imprint:   Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 196mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   202g
ISBN:   9781925498363
ISBN 10:   1925498360
Pages:   208
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Losing It

`I read it in a gulp. I seem to know this girl.' -- Helen Garner `[Riggs] doesn't gloss over what lies ahead, and the results are at times hilarious. Heartbreaking, honest and uplifting.' * Woman's Day * `Incredibly insightful...A meditation on life and how to live and, in the end, how to die.' * Australian * `While sometimes the past is much better left there, we should be glad that Moira Burke's Losing It has received a new lease on life...Long before Eimear McBride had the creative spark to appropriate James Joyce and produce her interior monologue masterpiece The Lesser Bohemians, set in London's dank bedsits and late night bars, it turns out Burke was doing something remarkably similar with Melbourne's sleazy St Kilda clubs and rowdy Coburg Italian family homes. How could we have missed her?' * Australian * `Addictive, powerful and raw, Losing It lays bare the unflinching realities for a teenager trapped in a spiral of self-destruction. Who does not see some of herself in Josie, a heroine for our uncertain times?' -- Rebecca Starford `Stark, poetic, truthful, compassionate; self-knowledge comes at a breathtaking pace.' -- Carmel Bird


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