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'Lucky's is a story of family. A story about migration.

'It is also about a man called Lucky. His restaurant chain. A fire that changed everything. A New Yorker article which might save a career. The mystery of a missing father. An impostor who got the girl. An unthinkable tragedy. A roll of the dice. And a story of love, lost, sought and won again, (at last).' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication : For Renee

  • Epigraph : 

    'Thus Don Quixote becomes a knight... - Simon Leys'

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Other Formats

  • Sound recording.
  • Dyslexic edition.

Works about this Work

Andrew Pippos’ “Lucky’s” Wins 2021 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction 2021 single work column
— Appears in: Neos Kosmos , November 2021;
Andrew Pippos Acknowledged in PM’s Shortlist for Literary Awards 2021 single work column
— Appears in: Neos Kosmos , October 2021;
The Saddest of Stories, Beautifully Told : Your Guide to the Miles Franklin 2021 Shortlist Jen Webb , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 15 July 2021; The Guardian Australia , 15 July 2021;
“Lucky’s” : A Must-read Saga by Greek Australian Author Andrew Pippos Iris Papathanasiou , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Neos Kosmos , April 2021;

— Review of Lucky's Andrew Pippos , 2020 single work novel
The Way the Wheel of Fortune Spins George Haddad , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , February 2021;

— Review of Lucky's Andrew Pippos , 2020 single work novel

'There is a peculiar practice in immigrant Sydney that I know well thanks to being born to a pair of Lebanese settlers. It is when a set of beliefs that parents hold true about other ethnicities (usually groups of people who migrated earlier than they did) are told to their children as a kind of forewarning. For example, as my father drove along Burwood Road to drop me off at Christian Brothers College, he would point at the cluster of Asian shops and say, ‘In business, Chinese are the most cunning.’ This probably would have made a lot more sense to me had my father ever engaged in ‘business’ but he hadn’t which meant he had inherited that saying from some other Lebanese man in a TAB somewhere who had probably heard the same from another Lebanese man and I suppose it could probably be traced to some misadventure of business between two eager men from different parts of the world. When my father said these things, I would nod. As would my sisters and cousins and any other third culture kids splattered around Sydney when their elders spoke these varyingly racist beliefs. We would nod. Not because we agreed, but because very early on as Australian-born children, we knew we would never speak the same language as our parents, that we were somehow more accepting than them if not purely by default of grazing our knees on the diverse playgrounds of Sydney’s schools.' (Introduction)

Lucky's by Andrew Pippos Review - A Must-Read Saga, and a Gripping Monument to Greek Diaspora Peter Polites , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 6 November 2020;

— Review of Lucky's Andrew Pippos , 2020 single work novel
'Pippos’ first book is a mouthwatering tale that encapsulates family drama, true crime and Greek tragedy – with pathos-filled characters that pop.'
Cavalcade of Coincidences : Andrew Pippos's Debut Novel Sonia Nair , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 426 2020; (p. 33)

— Review of Lucky's Andrew Pippos , 2020 single work novel

'In Andrew Pippos’s immersive and multi-layered début novel, Lucky’s, a tragic shooting that occurs in the last bastion of a Greek-Australian restaurant franchise becomes the fulcrum around which mental health, heartbreak, displacement, and toxic masculinity are explored.' (Introduction)

Greek Flavour in Sprawling Family Smorgasbord Louise Swinn , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 31 October 2020; (p. 14)

— Review of Lucky's Andrew Pippos , 2020 single work novel

'In Lucky’s, the debut novel of Sydney writer Andrew Pippos, the story is split between Lucky, the man behind the Lucky’s restaurant franchise, and Emily, jetting in from London in 2002 to write a New Yorker piece on the demise of the chain.' (Introduction)

Books Roundup Various , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , November 2020;

— Review of Lucky's Andrew Pippos , 2020 single work novel ; A Jealous Tide Anna MacDonald , 2020 single work novel ; Collisions : Fictions of the Future : An Anthology of Australian Writers of Colour 2020 anthology short story
Andrew Pippos Lucky’s Declan Fry , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 12-18 December 2020;

— Review of Lucky's Andrew Pippos , 2020 single work novel

'F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said that he once thought there were no second acts in American lives. But what of third or fourth acts? Or the lives of Greek Americans migrating to Australia? Such are the conundrums driving Andrew Pippos’s debut novel, a meditation on the stories we tell ourselves and the lives they shape.' (Publication summary)

'The Jukebox, the Soda Fountain, the Mosaic Floor': Andrew Pippos on the Greek Australian Cafe Brigid Delaney , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 1 November 2020;
'Pippos’s first book Lucky’s is a rollicking, multigenerational saga that’s close to home: set around a chain of old Greek cafes like the one his family ran'
Kate Grenville, Sofie Laguna, Julia Baird and Others : The 20 Best Australian Books of 2020 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 17 December 2020;
Back to Basics Geordie Williamson , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 19 December 2020; (p. 14)
‘Lucky’s’ by Andrew Pippos Makes The Guardian’s Top 20 2020 single work column
— Appears in: Neos Kosmos , December 2020;

‘A must-read saga, and a gripping monument to Greek diaspora’

The Saddest of Stories, Beautifully Told : Your Guide to the Miles Franklin 2021 Shortlist Jen Webb , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 15 July 2021; The Guardian Australia , 15 July 2021;
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