Henry Goes Bush

di Marshall Wayne (Autore)

Picador Australia, 2026

The price of genius is one hell of a hangover. In 1892, New South Wales' most promising writer and least promising teetotaller, Henry Lawson, is banished to Bourke to 'find the real bush'. The goal: sober up, gather fresh material, and stop being such a disappointment. But what Australia's favourite literary son discovers in the river town is less a glorious national frontier than a collective nervous breakdown. History records this as the trip that defined his career. Wayne Marshall records it as a surrealist action movie where Lawson must outrun his own myth and a gunslinger known as The Rider, aka Banjo - a poet significantly better at being a legend than Henry is. Henry Goes Bush confronts the madness that lies behind our colonial dreaming - a moment where history is a hallucination and 'the bush' a phantasmagoric theme park. A reality in which The Bulletin's famed poetry wars are an actual shootout on the banks of the Darling River. It turns out finding 'the real Australia' is easy; the hard part is surviving the encounter. 'like nothing you've read before' - MICHAEL WINKLER 'a genre-defying wonder of a novel' - RYAN O'NEILL 'surreal, singular, and deeply moving' - RHETT DAVIS

• Autore: Marshall Wayne
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Picador Australia
• Formato: EPUB3 con Adobe DRM
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9781761778995