Praise

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Allen & Unwin, 1999 - Australian fiction - 279 pages
This is an utterly frank and darkly humorous novel about being young in the Australia of the 1990s. A time when the dole was easier to get than a job, when heroin was better known than ecstasy, and when ambition was the dirtiest of words. A time when, for two hopeless souls, sex and dependence were the only lifelines.

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About the author (1999)

Andrew McGahan published his first book Praise in 1992. His other novels included 1988, Last Drinks, Underground, the Ship Kings series, and The Rich Man's House. He received the Miles Franklin and the Commonwealth Writers' prize in 2005 for The White Earth and the Aurealis Award for Wonders of a Godless World. He won the Matilda prize for his 1992 play Bait. He also wrote a collection of children's short stories entitled Treasures of the Deep. He died from pancreatic cancer on February 1, 2019 at the age of 52.

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