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Harry Kollatz Junior’s debut novel.  Carlisle Montgomery is a "six-foot-five, redheaded, pigtailed, gap-and-bucktoothed, nine-fingered, guitar playing freak.” Smoking, slugging whisky, arm wrestling, entangled with women and men and with her hard-touring group, the Live Wires, a "bluegrass band with a honky-tonk problem they’re not trying to fix" with their  "purebred American Mongrel music." It’s the 1990s and  the world is divided between Grunge and Garth Brooks and this story delves into the heart of what it means to be a musician and an artist in a changing world.

 

"A dizzying, dazzling, physical novel, featuring an epic character sometimes great at love, sometimes great at being bad at it. Kollatz lays  downright musical tracks in breathless, thumping prose, and Carlisle Montgomery, like its heroine, is damn near invincible. -- Susann Cokal, The Kingdom of Little Wounds, Mermaid Moon

Weaving Greek mythology, religion and the study of grammar, Stamatia X is the story of a Greek-Australian girl whose parents make the monumental decision to re-migrate "like birds flying backwards" to Greece. The year is 1973 and a military junta is in power. This modern Greek tragedy subverts notions of family, culture and gender. A yiayia in a swimsuit, a blasphemous Greek Orthodox priest, a corrupt regime. An explosive epic.

Part excoriation, part lamentation, Young Love unspools the psyche of a man ill at ease with modernity, "that festering malignancy." Satirical, compulsive and deeply provocative, it announces the arrival of David Roberts, a powerful new literary voice.