First Name Second Name
A darkly ironic novel where a dead man walks back through four generations of family estrangements to recover his lost identity.
$28.04
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
4 March 2025
Summary
In this darkly ironic novel, a dead man walks back through four generations of family estrangements to recover his lost identity.
The journey will be long and difficult, one thousand miles. Try not to be too obvious. Stick to the backroads. You’ll know you’ve arrived when you get there.
Stephen Bolin leaves a bizarre note by his deathbed, asking his sisters to take his body back to his birthplace in Far North Queensland. When they ignore his request, Stephen’s corpse makes the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780702268809 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0702268801 |
| Author: | Steve Minon |
| Publisher: | University of Queensland Press |
| Imprint: | University of Queensland Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 4 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 322g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 153mm x 226mm |
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Critics Review
‘First Name Second Name is the quintessential Australian novel - a stunningly complex and intelligent portrait of who we are now and who we are destined to become. MinOn is a critical, insightful and compassionate new voice. Absolutely a name to remember.’ Michael Mohammed Ahmad
‘First Name Second Name is a glorious, inventive novel about the experiences of a Chinese-Scottish family, from the goldfields in North Queensland to 1980s Brisbane to the present day. You will be both entertained and moved by this wonderful novel.’ Mirandi Riwoe
‘First Name, Second Name is exhilaratingly brilliant. Steve MinOn’s voice is wry, wise and utterly original. Here, MinOn delivers a spellbinding odyssey through the past of a migrant family from Far North Queensland.’ Lech Blaine
‘Ambitious and inventive … First Name Second Name takes themes of racial, familial and sexual identity and explores them in an entirely original way.’ Judges’ comments, Queensland Literary Awards
Steve Minon
Steve MinOn was an internationally awarded advertising copywriter and a restaurateur before becoming a writer of fiction. He grew up in North Queensland and he now lives in Meanjin/Brisbane. Steve has written often about outsiders and his family’s mixed-race ancestral history, and his articles and short stories have been published in SBS Voices, Mamamia and various anthologies. He won the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer in the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards for First Name Second Name.
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