Adam Ouston Adam Ouston i(A116875 works by)
Gender: Male
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Adam Ouston's stories have appeared in Island, Overland, Review of Australian Fiction, Islet, Voiceworks and the anthology Transportation: Islands and Cities (2015). He taught 'creative writing at the University of Tasmania' qand completed a Ph D at the same university in 2013. Ouston is also the front man of Tasmanian band All Fires.

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y separately published work icon Waypoints Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2022 23613985 2022 single work novel

'In 1910 the famed escapologist Harry Houdini made an ill-fated attempt to become the first person to fly an aircraft over Australian soil--yet while Houdini is remembered today for his failure, the true record-holder has been forgotten. This quirk of history becomes the focus for the obsessions of Bernard Cripp, world-weary scion of an ailing family circus, who tries to unearth every detail of Houdini's flight in order to re-enact it. But why is Bernard so single-minded? As his manic testimony unspools, his story takes on a darker tone: he is, in fact, in mourning for a wife and child he has lost to the skies, and paralysed by the uncertainty surrounding their deaths. If his efforts to re-create history cannot bring back his loved ones, can they at least bring him peace as he struggles to live with his loss?

'In Waypoints, his outlandish début novel, Adam Ouston embarks on a journey to reclaim a lost sense of awe and wonder from subjects as diverse as Victorian vaudeville and cutting-edge data storage, from the early history of Alzheimer's disease to the immortality of human consciousness. Blending the solemnity of Sebald with the breathlessness of Bernhard, the result is equal parts rambunctious and ruminative, poignant and hilarious -- a wild ride through a storm of grief, ambition, integrity, remembrance, and love.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2023 longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
2023 shortlisted ASAL Awards ALS Gold Medal
2022 shortlisted Tasmania Book Prizes Tasmanian Literary Awards Premier's Prize for Fiction
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