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Jay Carmichael Jay Carmichael i(A140653 works by)
Gender: Male
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y separately published work icon Marlo Mulgrave : Scribe , 2022 24430682 2022 single work novel

'It's the 1950s in conservative Australia, and Christopher, a young gay man, moves to 'the City' to escape the repressive atmosphere of his tiny hometown. Once there, however, he finds that it is just as censorial and punitive, in its own way.

'Then Christopher meets Morgan, and the two fall in love - a love that breathes truth back into Christopher's stifled life. But the society around them remains rigid and unchanging, and what begins as a refuge for both men inevitably buckles under the intensity of navigating a world that wants them to refuse what they are. Will their devotion be enough to keep them together?

'In reviving a time that is still so recent yet so vastly different from now, Jay Carmichael has drawn on archival material, snippets of newspaper articles, and photos to create the claustrophobic environment in which these two men lived and loved. Told with Carmichael's ear for sparse, poetic beauty, Marlo takes us into the landscape of a relationship defined as much by what is said and shared as by what has to remain unsaid.'  (Publication summary)

2023 winner The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist of the Year
y separately published work icon Ironbark Melbourne : Scribe , 2018 13857893 2018 single work novel
2019 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for Fiction
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