Losing It
Author: Burke, Moira
ISBN: 9781925498363
Publisher: Text Publishing
Year First Published: 2017
Pages: 208
Dimensions: 196mm x 129mm x 20mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A powerful reflection of early 80s working-class Melbourne, Losing It is set in a time of tight jeans, blue eyeshadow and Countdown - and of risky underage sex and drugs
In the 1980s in the Melbourne suburb of Fawkner, Josie's father is drinking himself to an ugly and appalling death. Josie's mother is a factory machinist, bringing home piecework to keep the family afloat.And Josie is surviving, or not-self-destructive sex, excessive alcohol, drugs, brutalised friendships.But her internal monologue-intense, immediate and raw-reveals a heartbreaking portrait of an intelligent young woman desperately looking for a way to make sense of her life, grappling with her feelings of repulsion and love for her father and her longing to be loved.First published in 1998, Losing It is a vivid and visceral account of 1980s working-class Melbourne and a coming-of-age story that is both familiar and unique, shocking and intimate.
ISBN: 9781925498363
Publisher: Text Publishing
Year First Published: 2017
Pages: 208
Dimensions: 196mm x 129mm x 20mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A powerful reflection of early 80s working-class Melbourne, Losing It is set in a time of tight jeans, blue eyeshadow and Countdown - and of risky underage sex and drugs
In the 1980s in the Melbourne suburb of Fawkner, Josie's father is drinking himself to an ugly and appalling death. Josie's mother is a factory machinist, bringing home piecework to keep the family afloat.And Josie is surviving, or not-self-destructive sex, excessive alcohol, drugs, brutalised friendships.But her internal monologue-intense, immediate and raw-reveals a heartbreaking portrait of an intelligent young woman desperately looking for a way to make sense of her life, grappling with her feelings of repulsion and love for her father and her longing to be loved.First published in 1998, Losing It is a vivid and visceral account of 1980s working-class Melbourne and a coming-of-age story that is both familiar and unique, shocking and intimate.
