{"product_id":"9781925818123-secondhand-intimate-antipathies","title":"Intimate Antipathies","description":"Intimate\nAntipathies \nis the much-anticipated new book by Luke Carman, the award-winning author of\nthe cult classic  An Elegant Young Man . The essays in this collection\nfollow the writer in his oscillations through anxiety, outrage and ecstasy, and\nin the process explore the connections between writing and dreaming, writing\nand mental illness, writing and the complications of family life. \n From\nhis famous jeremiad against arts administrators in 'Getting Square in a Jerking\nCircle', through the psychotic attack brought on by the collapse of his\nmarriage, to his surreal account of meeting with Gerald Murnane at a golf club\nin the remote Victorian village of Goroke, Carman explores the particular\nchallenges faced by writers who grow up in the contested borderlands of the\nsuburbs - always returning to his great obsession, the home on a small mountain\nin Sydney's west, where his antipathies with the real world first began to\nshape his imagination. \n Luke\nCarman's story collection  An Elegant Young Man  won the 2015 NSW\nPremier's New Writing Award and was shortlisted for the Australian Literature\nSociety Gold Medal, the Steele Rudd Short Story Prize and the Readings New\nWriting Award. He was named a  Sydney Morning Herald  Best Young Novelist\nfor the book, which is about a narrator, also named Luke, who bears many\nsimilarities to the essayist in this collection - an outspoken and self-mocking\ninnocent who is beguiled by romance and yearns for transcendence. \n 'Somewhere\nbetween swagger and sincerity...street poetry for contemporary Australia.'  -  Madeleine\nWatts,  Sydney Morning Herald 'A bogan flaneur: part connoisseur, part anthropologist of the rich and fractious field of difference through which he moves.' - Geordie Williamson,  Australian","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50758688506075,"sku":"9781925818123-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/83c143c3-b94c-476a-b546-63d8f2ab844d.jpg?v=1792158742","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781925818123-secondhand-intimate-antipathies","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}