Paradise Estate
Easton, Max2023
Book
It's 2022 and Helen is starting again. Newly single, adrift in an uncaring rental market, she finds a four-bedroom house flanked by apartment blocks that stare into the yard from all sides. Despite the lack of privacy, she fills its rooms with an unlikely group of residents looking for communal harmony: a zine maker working on a punk music archive; an activist writing about Australian anti-communism; an academic launching a return of guerrilla gardening; and a part-time rugby league player who has one chance to play for his country before retirement. Each is looking to build a future, each is haunted by their recent past. If a four-bedroom share house in Sydney could ever promise salvation, it would come with a coating of black mould. Against the backdrop of pandemic and war, climate and housing crises, Paradise Estate finds its residents surrounded by generational confusion, stranded by housing scarcity and social malaise. Written with ironic wit and an eye for contemporary events, Easton's second novel sets the pessimism of its times against the optimism of the will. When isolation and atomisation are what we are given, what can be made from coming together?
Main title:
Paradise Estate / Max Easton.
Author:
Easton, Max, author
Work:
Imprint:
Artarmon, NSW : Giramondo Publishing Company, 2023.©2023
Collation:
290 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
97819227258449781922725844 (paperback)
Dewey class:
A823.4
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
780874
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| narrm ngarrgu Library and Family Services | Fiction | EAST | Available |
| Southbank Library | Fiction | EAST | In-transit from City Library to Southbank Library (Set: 26 Jun 2026) |