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Shortlisted, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2025, Fiction Darlinghurst, Sydney: these are the days of strange rumours. Talk you can catch the gay plague from kissing, or from a mosquito bite. Talk of the government building a wall around 'Darlo' to keep the plague contained. Talk of...
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Host City, David Owen Kelly's third book, is a stunningly innovative fusion of memoir and alternative history
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Shortlisted, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2025, Fiction
Darlinghurst, Sydney: these are the days of strange rumours. Talk you can catch the gay plague from kissing, or from a mosquito bite. Talk of the government building a wall around 'Darlo' to keep the plague contained. Talk of old quarantine stations around Australia being reopened, of the army being used to round up all the poofters. Bashings increase tenfold and you're dead meat if you don't have someone to watch your back. Kit, Ty, and Johnnie, three young gay men, just want to live the life Sydney promised when they arrived.
Host City, David Owen Kelly's third book, is a stunningly innovative fusion of memoir and alternative history that spins an affective tale of persecution, jeopardy, and survival from the fear and paranoia that marched lockstep with HIV in the 1980s.
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ISBN: 9781923099067
Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 April 2024
Country: Australia
Imprint: Puncher and Wattmann
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 148.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 333g
Pages: 250
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About the Author
David Owen Kelly was born and raised in Queensland before fleeing south to escape the reign of Joh. This is Kelly's third book after Fantastic Street, and State of Origin. Shorter pieces have appeared in The Lifted Brow, Best Australian Stories, and The Monthly. He teaches memoir and lives in Newcastle with Jason.
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