Wake In Fright
$12.70
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
26 April 2012
Summary
Introduced by Peter Temple
“Right,” he said. “Spin ‘em!”
The man flipped the piece of wood and the coins spun up into the air above his head and dropped down on to the carpet.
There was silence.
Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant’s journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781921922169 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1921922168 |
| Author: | Kenneth Cook |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | Text Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 26 April 2012 |
| Weight: | 164g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 130mm x 199mm |
| Series: | Text Classics |
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Critics Review
‘A true dark classic of Australian literature.’ - J. M. Coetzee
Kenneth Cook
Kenneth Cook was born in Sydney. Wake in Fright, which drew on his time as a journalist in Broken Hill, was first published in 1961 when Cook was thirty-two. It was published in England and America, translated into several languages, and a prescribed text in schools. Cook wrote twenty-one books in a variety of genres, and was well known in film circles as a scriptwriter and independent film-maker. He died in 1987 at the age of fifty-seven.
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