Andrew McGahan's prize-winning Praise is a stunningly
frank and darkly humorous novel about being young in Australia,
living in a world where drugs and alcohol dominate, where sex
scalds and soothes, where Social Security is easier to get than a
job. Where survival means taking nothing and no one too
seriously.
'McGahan's book is a bracing slap in the face to conventional
platitudes and hypocrises.' The Australian
'Candid and unembarrassed, McGahan's work throbs with an
intensity.'
New Zealand Herald
'Praise is one of those books that takes a hefty bite out of
a piece of subject matter, chews it to a pulp and then spits it
out.' Peter Craven
Winner of the Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the Commonwealth
Writers' Prize for Best First Book in the Pacific Region.
Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and the Canada-Australia
Literary Award.
