Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago
Alexis Wright’s ‘Praiseworthy’ is bonkers. Winner of the Stella Prize 2024 and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2024 AND the Miles Franklin Award 2024.
8/10
Praiseworthy: The town of Praiseworthy, in Australia's north, is home to Cause Man Steel, who sees an end-of-the-world crisis looming. His solution is to round up all the donkeys in the nearby area, arguing that they will be important when civilization collapses. He and his wife, Dance, who has become fascinated by moths and butterflies, and his sons, Aboriginal Sovereignty, who wants to commit suicide, and Tommyhawk, who wants to become white, have to live under the 2008 Australian Federal Government intervention program, which attempts to regulate how Indigenous Australians act and behave.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/thediscoking
Booktubers mentioned: @BobTheBookerer
Thanks for watching, and remember: I hate donkeys.
#booktube #bookreview #stellaprize #alexiswright #milesfranklin #nobelprize #literature
Alexis Wright’s ‘Praiseworthy’ is bonkers. Winner of the Stella Prize 2024 and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2024 AND the Miles Franklin Award 2024.
8/10
Praiseworthy: The town of Praiseworthy, in Australia's north, is home to Cause Man Steel, who sees an end-of-the-world crisis looming. His solution is to round up all the donkeys in the nearby area, arguing that they will be important when civilization collapses. He and his wife, Dance, who has become fascinated by moths and butterflies, and his sons, Aboriginal Sovereignty, who wants to commit suicide, and Tommyhawk, who wants to become white, have to live under the 2008 Australian Federal Government intervention program, which attempts to regulate how Indigenous Australians act and behave.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/thediscoking
Booktubers mentioned: @BobTheBookerer
Thanks for watching, and remember: I hate donkeys.
#booktube #bookreview #stellaprize #alexiswright #milesfranklin #nobelprize #literature
