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Hilarious terrifying and fun - much like the 80s only smarter. ANNA FUNDER
Fiercely funny. This is a road trip of danger love and hope. Brilliant! JULIA ZEMIRO
Witty brave honest and wise. Mad Max meets 1980s feminism fuelled by undergraduate outrage and hedonism. CATHERINE LUMBY
Datson Angel is a turbo-charged adventure into the savage heart of 1980s Australia: a place completely alien yet frighteningly similar to today.
EVERYTHING IN THIS BOOK HAPPENED . . .
At seventeen Anna Broinowski is precocious naive and convinced she knows how the world works. But O-Week at Sydney University changes that. Shes suddenly in a hyper-masculine caste system where future captains of industry terrorise freshers and invade dorms in naked screaming packs.
Nothing is what she thought itd be . . . until Anna finds her people. New dreams are made. Playing violin auditioning for NIDA losing her virginity. Then Peisley a gentle giant talks of a hitchhiking trip up north. And after agreeing on three rules - never split up remain platonic accept every lift that gets them closer to Darwin - Anna decides to go.
Hitchhiking the highways leads her into a dystopian dustbowl on societys hard edges where outsiders must adapt or perish and women teeter on an existential knife edge. In this flyblown asylum love and danger collide with the toxic misogyny in the guts of the Australian soul. Anna will learn that the line between victim and survivor can be as cruel as luck and as random as a shiny blue Datson on a red dirt road.
Based on her battered travel diary Datsun Angel is a savage darkly funny memoir of sex drugs and violence-fuelled adventure through the brutal 1980s Australian outback. It is a feminist On the Road told through a #MeToo filter.
