Their Brilliant Careers

‘Blackly hilarious and structurally audacious ... the book is a riot of allusions and in-jokes [but] they are far from its point. Instead, it interrogates a series of questions about authorship … and registers a larger interest in the machinery of literary celebrity. What it offers is something strange and often wonderful, a wildly inventive and formally dazzling reworking of both the tropes and traditions of Australian literature, and by extension Australian culture more generally’ * The i Paper *
‘A divine satire on the narcissism of the literary world’
‍‘The most unexpected literary delight of my year’ * Irish Independent *
‘Their Brilliant Careers … brims with crackerjack wit. Pressure is subtly built; punchlines are explosive’ * Australian Book Review *
‘Their Brilliant Careers is a top-to-tail fiction that trades in plausibility. O’Neill employs a form of artifice that strives, stubbornly, for originality against dulling convention, especially in the rendering of human anguish. It is mercilessly funny in places’ * Sydney Morning Herald *
‘A divine satire on the narcissism of the literary world’ || ‘Blackly hilarious and structurally audacious ... the book is a riot of allusions and in-jokes [but] they are far from its point. Instead, it interrogates a series of questions about authorship … and registers a larger interest in the machinery of literary celebrity. What it offers is something strange and often wonderful, a wildly inventive and formally dazzling reworking of both the tropes and traditions of Australian literature, and by extension Australian culture more generally’ - The i Paper || ‍‘The most unexpected literary delight of my year’ - Irish Independent || ‘Their Brilliant Careers … brims with crackerjack wit. Pressure is subtly built; punchlines are explosive’ - Australian Book Review || ‘Their Brilliant Careers is a top-to-tail fiction that trades in plausibility. O’Neill employs a form of artifice that strives, stubbornly, for originality against dulling convention, especially in the rendering of human anguish. It is mercilessly funny in places’ - Sydney Morning Herald
‘A divine satire on the narcissism of the literary world’ || ‘Blackly hilarious and structurally audacious ... the book is a riot of allusions and in-jokes [but] they are far from its point. Instead, it interrogates a series of questions about authorship … and registers a larger interest in the machinery of literary celebrity. What it offers is something strange and often wonderful, a wildly inventive and formally dazzling reworking of both the tropes and traditions of Australian literature, and by extension Australian culture more generally’ - The i Paper || ‍‘The most unexpected literary delight of my year’ - Irish Independent || ‘Their Brilliant Careers … brims with crackerjack wit. Pressure is subtly built; punchlines are explosive’ - Australian Book Review || ‘Their Brilliant Careers is a top-to-tail fiction that trades in plausibility. O’Neill employs a form of artifice that strives, stubbornly, for originality against dulling convention, especially in the rendering of human anguish. It is mercilessly funny in places’ - Sydney Morning Herald