Paradise Estate

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2023
Edition: First Edition

Description: 290 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Its 2022 and Helen is starting again. Newly single, dogged by grief, adrift in a hostile rental market, she finds a four-bedroom house flanked by apartment blocks that stare into the yard. Despite the lack of privacy, she fills its rooms with an unlikely group of residents looking for communal belonging: zine maker, activist, disaffected artist, part-time rugby league player “ each looking to build a future, each haunted by their recent past. But if a rented house in Sydney could ever promise salvation, it would come with a coating of black mould.. Set across the course of a year, against the backdrop of pandemic and war, of climate and housing crises, Paradise Estate documents the struggle against generational confusion and social malaise. When isolation and atomisation are all weve been given, what can be built from common ground. Written with ironic wit and an eye for contemporary events, the follow-up to Max Eastons acclaimed debut, The Magpie Wing, sets the pessimism of its times against the optimism of the will.

ISBN: 9781922725844