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    Forever Young

    By Steven Carroll

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    The fifth novel in the acclaimed Glenroy series by multi-award winning novelist Steven Carroll.  Shortlisted for the 2016 Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award


    And is nostalgia not so much a longing for a place or a time, as a longing for youth itself?

    Forever Young is set against the tumultuous period of change and uncertainty that was Australia in 1977. Whitlam is about to lose the federal election, and things will never be the same again. the times they are a'changing.  Radicals have become conservatives, idealism is giving way to realism, relationships are falling apart, and Michael is finally coming to accept that he will never be a rock and roll musician.

    A subtle and graceful exploration of the passage of time and our yearning for the seeming simplicities of the past, Forever Young is a powerfully moving work - clear. beautiful, affecting - by one of our greatest authors.

    'The engaging full stop to a very fine and significant achievement'  Adelaide Advertiser

    'No Australian author has better evoked the sense of change, the ravages of time, the obligation to self as well as to others ... At every turn this exquisitely crafted novel can widen our notion of what it is to be human, then, now and, possibly, later.'   The Sydney Morning Herald

    'Carroll's prose is languid, focusing on the inner world of his characters and the minutiae and movements of nature and time. There is plenty going on with the story, but it's not the plot that enchants here, it's the prose.' Daily Telegraph

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Australia
    Release dateJun 1, 2015
    ISBN9781743099728
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    Steven Carroll

    Steven Carroll is the multi-award winning author of fifteen novels including A World of Other People (2013), which was the joint winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award, and The Time We Have Taken (2007), which was the winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the SE Asia and Pacific Region and the Miles Franklin Award in 2008. Forever Young (2015) was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the Prime Minister's Literary Award in 2016. A New England Affair (2017) was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award in 2018 and The Year of the Beast (2019) was longlisted for the 2020 Voss Literary Prize. His most recent novel, Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight was longlisted for the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize and for the 2023 Voss Literary Prize. Steven lives in Melbourne with his partner, the author Fiona Capp, and their son.

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