88
LINES ABOUT 44 WOMEN
Steven Lang
For
a while it seemed that Lawrence Martin had everything. He was the key-board player
in a successful rock band, he had money, his choice of women. It was a long way
from the British boarding school where he met Roly, the charismatic front man
who lured him to Australia in the first place, and with whom he shared the song-writing.
Only after it all went wrong did Lawrence learn they'd been sharing other things
as well.
Two decades on, living in the remote highlands of
Scotland, he's again confronted with those turbulent years. And with the accident
that changed everything. Are all men emotionally disconnected, Lawrence wonders,
unable to join the dots? Does true intimacy bring redemption, or is it the other
way round?
Wry, insightful, intelligent, '88 Lines About 44
Women' traces the boundaries of shame and how it obstructs the capacity for love.
Steven Lang's first novel, 'An Accidental Terrorist' (2005), was shortlisted for
the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Book, and longlisted for the Miles
Franklin Award. It won the UTS Award for New Writing at the 2006 New South Wales
Premier's awards, and as a manuscript was given the 2004 Queensland Premier's
Literary Award for Best Emerging Author.
'88
Lines About 44 Women' is available now (RRP $32.95).
