A Real Piece of Work
$24.93
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
25 July 2023
Summary
An exhilarating, thought-provoking, and joyful debut that asks how we create our identities and how we can transcend them.
‘Language gave to me the body I knew was mine and brought into existence so many possibilities for what my gender can be.’
Across these twenty fresh and boldly intimate stories, Erin Riley writes about the things that matter most—family, heartbreak, humanity, justice, and swimming, and the messy, hard graft of becoming one’s authentic self.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761340154 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761340158 |
| Author: | Erin Riley |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Viking Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 25 July 2023 |
| Weight: | 184g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 319mm x 130mm |
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About The Author
Erin Riley
Erin Riley is a social worker, having spent most of the last decade working alongside marginalised populations in community aged care in and around Sydney. By night, Erin’s a skivvy-wearer, a dedicated reader, wrestling fan, swimmer of laps and a lover of routine. Erin brings a queer lived experience to their professional work and to their writing, and is fascinated and energised by the power of stories in both understanding and reimagining ourselves. They were a Penguin Random House Australia Write It fellow in 2021, and have been published in Kill Your Darlings, Bent Street, and in UQP’s anthology of non-fiction by autistic writers, Someone Like Me. Erin lives in Sydney with their partner and Remy the dog.
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