{"product_id":"their-brilliant-careers","title":"Their Brilliant Careers","description":"\u003cp data-palette=\"Paragraph\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-short-review-input\" data-wf-id='[\"cd3a28fd-97e4-e84d-5b97-a12c923de0d9\"]' data-w-id=\"cd3a28fd-97e4-e84d-5b97-a12c923de0d9\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-palette=\"Strong\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-short-review-input\" data-wf-id='[\"96602aff-896b-964b-2171-36ac5445b62a\"]' data-w-id=\"96602aff-896b-964b-2171-36ac5445b62a\"\u003eThe fantastic lives of sixteen extraordinary Australian writers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-palette=\"Paragraph\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-short-review-input\" data-wf-id='[\"02f82d6f-6794-32ee-1dcc-849dc7b234b2\"]' data-w-id=\"02f82d6f-6794-32ee-1dcc-849dc7b234b2\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER: Australian PM’s Award for Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-palette=\"Paragraph\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-short-review-input\" data-wf-id='[\"da16ca34-2f55-439c-1bd9-6dc828e0039f\"]' data-w-id=\"da16ca34-2f55-439c-1bd9-6dc828e0039f\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSHORTLISTED: Miles Franklin Literary Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-palette=\"Paragraph\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-short-review-input\" data-wf-id='[\"da16ca34-2f55-439c-1bd9-6dc828e0039f\"]' data-w-id=\"da16ca34-2f55-439c-1bd9-6dc828e0039f\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-palette=\"Paragraph\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"775fbc78-3750-2ef5-741e-3bb4816cb12b\"]' data-w-id=\"775fbc78-3750-2ef5-741e-3bb4816cb12b\"\u003eAbsurd, original and highly addictive,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-palette=\"Emphasized\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"7cb111fb-6076-2586-0b5e-34e222986d5e\"]' data-w-id=\"7cb111fb-6076-2586-0b5e-34e222986d5e\"\u003eTheir Brilliant Careers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a hilarious novel in the guise of sixteen biographies of (invented) Australian writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-palette=\"Paragraph\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"da7aa936-6933-c798-e050-e93cd3eea179\"]' data-w-id=\"da7aa936-6933-c798-e050-e93cd3eea179\"\u003eSubjects include Rachel Deverall, who unearthed the secret source of the great literature of our time and paid a terrible price for her discovery; Rand Washington, hugely popular sci-fi author, body-builder and inveterate racist; and Addison Tiller, whose stories set in the outback were bestsellers even though he had never actually travelled outside Sydney. And let’s not forget experimental writer Arthur ruhtrA, who wrote a whole novel without once using the letter C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-palette=\"Paragraph\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"ac5919f6-0e1a-84ef-bcba-d13cd557bc03\"]' data-w-id=\"ac5919f6-0e1a-84ef-bcba-d13cd557bc03\"\u003eEvery page – from the dedication to the index – is fraudulent, each biography interweaving with the rest to form a magnificent lie. The result is a sparklingly inventive award-winning novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-palette=\"Paragraph\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"ac5919f6-0e1a-84ef-bcba-d13cd557bc03\"]' data-w-id=\"ac5919f6-0e1a-84ef-bcba-d13cd557bc03\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-w-id=\"e6b797ce-e2c6-df9d-7ef5-d1525f2a0a8a\" data-wf-id='[\"e6b797ce-e2c6-df9d-7ef5-d1525f2a0a8a\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-reviews-input\" data-palette=\"Paragraph\"\u003e‘Blackly hilarious and structurally audacious. What it offers is something strange and often wonderful, a wildly inventive and formally dazzling reworking of both the tropes and traditions of Australian literature, and by extension Australian culture more generally’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-w-id=\"35114149-cf25-383b-b3d9-426f5f4abc1e\" data-wf-id='[\"35114149-cf25-383b-b3d9-426f5f4abc1e\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-quotes-input\" data-palette=\"Paragraph\"\u003e‘It’s glorious. So funny and clever and entertaining’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-w-id=\"86047173-e58c-179e-bedf-a4304a5b8ae6\" data-wf-id='[\"86047173-e58c-179e-bedf-a4304a5b8ae6\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-quotes-input\" data-palette=\"Strong\"\u003eMarian Keyes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-w-id=\"92e793cb-3d89-f949-706a-4314f1140148\" data-wf-id='[\"92e793cb-3d89-f949-706a-4314f1140148\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-reviews-input\" data-palette=\"Paragraph\"\u003e‘A divine satire on the narcissism of the literary world’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe i Paper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-w-id=\"fe3cfa5b-16f7-e80f-c032-3c2c2e2e7fcb\" data-wf-id='[\"fe3cfa5b-16f7-e80f-c032-3c2c2e2e7fcb\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-quotes-input\" data-palette=\"Paragraph\"\u003e‘A brilliant work of fiction’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-w-id=\"beace49a-c371-1101-de4c-6ec4d1fbc47c\" data-wf-id='[\"beace49a-c371-1101-de4c-6ec4d1fbc47c\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-quotes-input\" data-palette=\"Strong\"\u003eStewart Lee\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-w-id=\"4bc21a12-284a-7655-aca0-c7c1351830c9\" data-wf-id='[\"4bc21a12-284a-7655-aca0-c7c1351830c9\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-reviews-input\" data-palette=\"Paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/culture\/their-brilliant-careers-by-ryan-oneill-book-review-australian-award-miles-franklin\/\" data-w-id=\"d5a75b11-c0e4-cac9-0d2f-a97ff59443a6\" data-wf-id='[\"d5a75b11-c0e4-cac9-0d2f-a97ff59443a6\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-reviews-input\" data-palette=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-w-id=\"d3812e23-8129-68ae-6773-e8772ac1b2f8\" data-wf-id='[\"d3812e23-8129-68ae-6773-e8772ac1b2f8\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-reviews-input\" data-palette=\"Strong\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e‘The most unexpected literary delight of my year’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIrish Independent\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-w-id=\"a15f5a38-02dc-a7f0-b316-0ae3bb247804\" data-wf-id='[\"a15f5a38-02dc-a7f0-b316-0ae3bb247804\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-reviews-input\" data-palette=\"Paragraph\"\u003e‘Brims with crackerjack wit. Pressure is subtly built; punchlines are explosive’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-w-id=\"d99ebe0c-b8a0-78d9-ae4b-d356d898b8d5\" data-wf-id='[\"d99ebe0c-b8a0-78d9-ae4b-d356d898b8d5\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-reviews-input\" data-palette=\"Paragraph\"\u003e‘[Ryan O’Neill] offers a book that is a piss-take, a celebration, a revisionist history and, perhaps most impressively, exceedingly good fun’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-w-id=\"a3963002-c02a-4ede-1986-ade9536bf75d\" data-wf-id='[\"a3963002-c02a-4ede-1986-ade9536bf75d\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-reviews-input\" data-palette=\"Paragraph\"\u003e‘A top-to-tail fiction that trades in plausibility. 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