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'It’s 1969 and a remote Australian coastal town is poised to play its part in the Moon Landing. An influx of expat NASA employees working at the tracking station on the sand dune just out of town shakes things up. A pink and grey galah cockatoo emerges from a cage at the back door of the Kelly household and uncovers some tightly-held secrets. She threads these playfully through the story of her own rising and falling fortunes in what we call the lucky country.' (Publications summary)
Notes
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Dedication: To the memory of my father Brian Sorensen
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
- Also large print.
- Dyslexic edition.
Works about this Work
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Josephine Taylor Reviews 'The Lucky Galah'
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 401 2018; (p. 39)
— Review of The Lucky Galah 2018 single work novel'In 1969, in a quintessentially Australian town on the remote north-west coast, the locals prepare to celebrate their role in the moon landing. In 2000, as the townsfolk brace themselves for a cyclone, Lucky, this novel’s pink and grey narrator, uses transmissions from a satellite dish tuned to galah frequency to make sense of what she saw and heard from her cage in the 1960s. Quirky? Unbelievable? Tracy Sorensen’s The Lucky Galah upsets preconceptions in a smart and charming account of a human population on the cusp of radical social transformation. (Introduction)
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Tracy Sorensen : The Lucky Galah
2018
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , March 2018;'There’s much more to Tracy Sorensen’s impressive debut than just an original premise.'
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Flight of Fantasy
Lorien Kaye
(interviewer),
2017
single work
interview
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , May vol. 97 no. 2 2017; (p. 28)'Tracy Sorensen's 'The Lucky Galah' (Picador, March) recounts the lives of ordinary Australians from the 1960s until the 2000s, as narrated by a galah called Lucky. The conceit is handled 'with a deft touch so that the characters come to life as vividly as the ideas', writes reviewer Lorien Kaye. She spoke to the author.' (Introduction)
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Josephine Taylor Reviews 'The Lucky Galah'
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 401 2018; (p. 39)
— Review of The Lucky Galah 2018 single work novel'In 1969, in a quintessentially Australian town on the remote north-west coast, the locals prepare to celebrate their role in the moon landing. In 2000, as the townsfolk brace themselves for a cyclone, Lucky, this novel’s pink and grey narrator, uses transmissions from a satellite dish tuned to galah frequency to make sense of what she saw and heard from her cage in the 1960s. Quirky? Unbelievable? Tracy Sorensen’s The Lucky Galah upsets preconceptions in a smart and charming account of a human population on the cusp of radical social transformation. (Introduction)
-
Flight of Fantasy
Lorien Kaye
(interviewer),
2017
single work
interview
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , May vol. 97 no. 2 2017; (p. 28)'Tracy Sorensen's 'The Lucky Galah' (Picador, March) recounts the lives of ordinary Australians from the 1960s until the 2000s, as narrated by a galah called Lucky. The conceit is handled 'with a deft touch so that the characters come to life as vividly as the ideas', writes reviewer Lorien Kaye. She spoke to the author.' (Introduction)
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Tracy Sorensen : The Lucky Galah
2018
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , March 2018;'There’s much more to Tracy Sorensen’s impressive debut than just an original premise.'
Awards
- 2020 longlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
- 2019 longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
- 2019 shortlisted Russell Prize for Humour Writing
- 2019 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
- 2019 longlisted Indie Awards — Debut Fiction
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