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A review by ladydewinter
Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers by Ryan O'Neill
4.0
This is one of the most hilarious books I've read in a while - funny and smart and full of inside jokes from the literary world. It's a collection of biographical "essays" on Australian writers who never existed, and I loved the way the stories/essays interacted with each other and how the fiction was interwoven with facts so deftly that I had to google several times to make sure the writer wasn't actually real.
It's a brilliant book right until the very end, including the index which you must not skip. And chapter three has what may be my favourite joke ever.
It's a brilliant book right until the very end, including the index which you must not skip. And chapter three has what may be my favourite joke ever.