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State of Origin

State of Origin

by David Owen Kelly
Paperback
Publication Date: 08/10/2019
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When David was a kid, he thought he knew everything — especially about his pesky and annoying siblings who kept popping up out of nowhere.

But on the same night in 1980 David’s two brothers ran away, severely beaten. Years later David goes in search of them and in the process learns things about himself.

State of Origin is a heart-warming and harrowing story about what happens when the Stolen Generation, Ava Gardner, the Russian Royal Family and evil step-fathers converge in the creation of identity. It’s an exploration of what parts of a shared childhood continue to bond long after a family has been blown apart.

ISBN:
9781925780437
9781925780437
Category:
Memoirs
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
08-10-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Puncher & Wattmann
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
180
Dimensions (mm):
210x148mm

‘How moving they are, the heroic imaginations of abandoned children.’ — Helen Garner

'Kelly’s voice is the kind you want to sit down with and soak up and carry with you through life. His writing balances brilliantly between pathos and humour and moves through some of the most fraught, complex and compelling intersections of the current cultural landscape with a stunningly effective lightness of touch. The book is a delight. It is harrowing. It is haunting. It is the sort that will make you laugh out loud one moment and move you beyond words the next. It is the most powerful memoir I have read in years.' — Michael Sala

David Owen Kelly

David Owen Kelly was born and raised in Queensland before fleeing south to escape the reign of Joh. This is Kelly's third book after Fantastic Street, and State of Origin.

Shorter pieces have appeared in The Lifted Brow, Best Australian Stories, and The Monthly. He teaches memoir and lives in Newcastle with Jason.

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