Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Biography, Literature & Literary studies

TOO MUCH LIP

Melissa Lucashenko

Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent a lifetime avoiding two things - her hometown and prison. But now her Pop is dying and she's an inch away from the lockup, so she heads south on a stolen Harley.

Kerry plans to spend twenty-four hours, tops, over the border. She quickly discovers, though, that Bundjalung country has a funny way of grabbing on to people. Old family wounds open as the Salters fight to stop the development of their beloved river. And the unexpected arrival on the scene of a good-looking dugai fella intent on loving her up only adds more trouble - but then trouble is Kerry's middle name.

Gritty and darkly hilarious, Too Much Lip offers redemption and forgiveness where none seems possible.

Melissa Lucashenko is a Goorie author of Bundjalung and European heritage. She has been publishing books with UQP since 1997, with her first novel, Steam Pigs, winning the Dobbie Literary Award and shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Hard Yards (1999) was shortlisted for the Courier-Mail Book of the Year and the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, and Mullumbimby (2013) won the Queensland Literary Award and was longlisted for the Stella Prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Kibble Literary Award. She has also written two novels for teenagers, Killing Darcy (UQP, 1998) and Too Flash (IAD Press, 2002). In 2013 Melissa won the inaugural long-form Walkley Award for her Griffith REVIEW essay 'Sinking Below Sight: Down and Out in Brisbane and Logan'.

Available products
Book Published 2018-08-01 by UQP University of Queensland Press - St Lucia (AUS)
Book Published 2018-08-01 by UQP University of Queensland Press - St Lucia (AUS)

Comments

Vibrating with energy, both heartrending and hilarious, Too Much Lip offers a compelling multi-dimensional portrait of human strength in the face of human failure.

Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko has today been shortlisted for The Stella Prize Read more...

...Darkly comic and gloriously written, Too Much Lip is an urgent addition to any Australian library.

...Lucashenko is an award-winner who's never quite found the readership she's deserved. Here's hoping this darkly funny and fierce book fixes that.

A book about family, and love, and redemption, told by a strong and clear voice throbbing with unassailable humanity.

Too Much Lipby Melissa Lucashenko is longlisted for ABIA Literary Book of the Year Read more...

Too Much Lip's stark honesty illuminates a version of Indigenous life, the crippling influence of colonization and the hard-won power of resilience and healing.

Melissa Lucashenko's Too Much Lip won the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Read more...

US/UK: HarperVia ; Chinese (simpl.): The Writers Publishing House ; Italy: Lindau Read more...

At its heart, award-winning Lucashenko's latest novel is a family drama; a narrative of poverty, abuse and struggle. It is visceral, damning, heart- warming, and at times, furiously funny. Stylistically it is beautiful. This is writing that ripples with the darkest emotions and seethes with the anger of generations.

Film/tv rights have been optioned !: Cenozoic Pictures to bring Miles Franklin winner 'Too Much Lip' to screen Read more...

If this book were a sound, it would be the roar of a motorcycle down an empty road; bold, and for the moments when it's in your path dominating all of your senses. This book swallowed me and churned me in it's guts and, as all good books should, spit me back out, a little different.

Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Prize for Indigenous writing - 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

Gritty and darkly hilarious, Too Much Lip offers redemption and forgiveness where none seems possible.

Melissa Lucashenko's Too Much Lip has been longlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Award. Read more...

We are fortunate to have writers like Luckenshenko who has given us such a triumphant next move.

An award-winning Australian author explores family dysfunction and the legacy of colonial... Original, honest, and surprisingly funny.

Melissa Lucashenko has won Australia's most prestigious literary award, the Miles Franklin (the prize is awarded each year to a novel which is of the highest literary merit), for her fierce and hilarious novel, Too Much Lip. Read more...

...Melissa's writing is also absolutely hilarious at times, and delightfully raunchy at others. Don't go through 2018 without reading it!

With strong voices and kinetic prose, Lucashenko's engrossing narrative speaks to the ongoing traumas of indigenous life in Australia. This deserves to make a splash.