Dimensions
136 x 210 x 14mm
From the inaugural co-winner of the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers comes a funny, energetic and original coming-of-age story that isn't quite like any other book you'll read this year.
Oliver is a writer who's just moved to Melbourne. He doesn't have any friends yet; he can't get his surly flatmate, Mark, to crack a smile; and the only ones who will talk to him are the odd assortment of characters at the Keep Cup warehouse, where he plugs lids into cups in an endless cycle.
Oliver's hours consist of a series of daydreams. He has sweet, touching fantasies of owning a dog and driving down the freeway with the girl of his dreams. He has ridiculous, outlandish fantasies of bursting through roof at bedroom department-store chain Snooze. At nights, he begins to write a series of seemingly aimless online memories about growing up in pre-9/11 America.
Oliver is lonely. Oliver is sad. Oliver is self-involved. Oliver is sleepwalking through life. Then he meets Lisa, and things begin to change.
In the tradition of US writers Sam Pink and Scott McClanahan comes a startlingly original, ambitious work about a young man trying to navigate contemporary Australia and his own life. Part romance, part tragi-comedy, and part social critique, Lion Attack! is a hilarious coming-of-age story both poignant and surprisingly moving.
