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Is the isolated outback town of Bundanyabba a paradise of absolute freedom or a living nightmare? This week, Kenneth Cook's novel, Wake in Fright, explores the disturbing duality at the heart of the story and how the lack of judgment in The Yabba can make hell of heaven in a life of excess and indulgence - a dangerous freedom that strips away social constraints. For the locals, this is heaven; a life free from moral scrutiny, for John Grant it is a nightmare he spirals into until the thing he wants to escape is the fabric of a town he is now intimately part of.
Painting: Today I painted a beer
Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
- Wake in Fright by Kenneth Cook
- My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
- The Moustache by Emanuel Carrier
Additional segments throughout the podcast include:
- Mantle Piece Moments
- What are you reading?
- On that Quote
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