Cassie McCullough
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Podcast Appearances
But it ingrains this sense of racism.
insider-ness against the world, which is a losing battle.
It's just, you know, a nonsense and it's from an ancient past.
It was one of the themes that ran through it.
And at times I wondered if it needed to be interrogated a little bit more stridently with more strength.
Yeah, a lot of characters.
I couldn't keep track of all the characters, I'm sorry to say.
Well, we're told it's a social critique, almost through the characters' mouths.
I mean, it's a very chatty book.
It's very, each sentence, not each sentence, many sentences are filled with a kind of the rightly aside to an issue that hasn't actually been directly raised by the action or by the characters.
I mean...
It's very much openly a critique of this kind of Australia and its demise, whether that's a tragedy or quite happily so.
And maybe that's why it does sort of stay on the surface, I think, to use a surfing metaphor.
For me, the characters, none of the characters I really felt had stakes that were high enough for me to feel invested in them.
In fact...
I agree with Margaret Maguire.
A lot of them weren't very nice at all.
And the ones who were, they were fleeting, like Lou, the Oh My God daughter.
Yeah, I think it's primarily a social critique, but I'm happy to have my view adjusted.
I felt that often the punches failed to land and I wasn't even sure about exactly what had happened in circumstances.