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Winner, Festival of Literature Award for an Unpublished Manuscript by a South Australian emerging writer The Goddamn Bus of Happiness PB 240 PP 210 x 135 1862546495 $22.95 Fiction EAN 9781862546493 Wakefield Press This novel is at once hilarious and deeply moving. It sets a cracking pace and pins you to the page with its outrageous episodes, intriguing characters and provocative observations. Yet there is tenderness in the writing. Deliberately humorous in the face of tragedy, it speaks honestly about the often ignored vulnerability of young men: a Catcher in the Rye for this time and place. Laszczuk’s novel will speak to anyone who ever wonders ‘how to get back on that goddam bus that . . . drives us through life to some sort of happiness.’ Stefan Laszczuk is a thirty-year-old writer and musician who lives in Adelaide. |
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‘The Goddamn Bus of Happiness is powerful, confronting, young adult fiction written with blinkers off . . . Laszcuk’s potent realism and strong characterisation, together with his dramatic acumen, make this an impressive debut . . .’ – Cameron Woodhead, Age |
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