Published: February 02, 2019
McGahan, who has died aged 52, arrived on the literary scene with a semi-autobiographical classic of Australian dirty realism
If you grew up in Brisbane in the 1970s and 1980s, Praise, the debut novel by Andrew McGahan, was to the city’s literature what the Saints’ (I’m) Stranded was to music.
Appearing in 1992, when it won the Vogel award for best unpublished manuscript, it captured the town’s torpor and the ambivalence of its inhabitants better than any book since David Malouf’s Johnno.
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