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'In present-day Melbourne, a man attempts to piece together the mystery of his father's apparent suicide, as his young family slowly implodes. At the ashram of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, in 1976, a man searching for salvation must confront his capacity for violence and darkness. And in a not-too-distant future, a woman with a life-altering decision to make travels through a climate-ravaged landscape to visit her estranged father.
'In Moonland is a portrait of three generations, each grappling with their own mortality. Spanning the wild idealism of the 70s through to the fragile hope of the future, it is a novel about the struggle for transcendence and the reverberating effects of family bonds. This long-awaited second outing from Miles Allinson, the multi-award-winning author of Fever of Animals, will affirm his reputation as one of Australia's most interesting contemporary fiction writers, and urge us to see our own political and environmental reality in a new light.' (Publication summary)
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Works about this Work
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A Question in Four Parts
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11 September 2021; (p. 16)
— Review of In Moonland 2021 single work novel -
Books Roundup : The Psychic Tests, After the Tampa, Bodies of Light, In Moonland
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , October 2021;
— Review of Bodies of Light 2021 single work novel ; In Moonland 2021 single work novel -
In Moonland by Miles Allinson Review : A Dreamlike Requiem for 70s Utopianism
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 7 September 2021;
— Review of In Moonland 2021 single work novel -
'Smoke in the Head' : Miles Allinson’s New Novel
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 435 2021; (p. 19)
— Review of In Moonland 2021 single work novel 'In an ABC interview to promote his previous novel, Fever of Animals (2015), Miles Allinson shares a brief anecdote. When Allinson was aged sixteen or seventeen, a teacher told him that everyone turns conservative eventually. Allinson recalls his repulsion at the notion of this inevitable slide towards orthodoxy. His new novel, In Moonland, feels like a rebuttal. Joe, the narrator of the first part of the book, is caught somewhere between consent and revolt: though ambitious, he feels trapped by the flickering lights of his own computer, by the suburbs, and by his run-of-the-mill job. Orbiting him is a coterie of questions relating to his new status as a father, coupled with one more profoundly unanswerable question: why did his father, Vincent, kill himself? Only some of these questions are answered across a narrative that uses four different perspectives and three different timelines, from the present back to the 1970s and into the near future.' (Introduction)
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'Smoke in the Head' : Miles Allinson’s New Novel
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 435 2021; (p. 19)
— Review of In Moonland 2021 single work novel 'In an ABC interview to promote his previous novel, Fever of Animals (2015), Miles Allinson shares a brief anecdote. When Allinson was aged sixteen or seventeen, a teacher told him that everyone turns conservative eventually. Allinson recalls his repulsion at the notion of this inevitable slide towards orthodoxy. His new novel, In Moonland, feels like a rebuttal. Joe, the narrator of the first part of the book, is caught somewhere between consent and revolt: though ambitious, he feels trapped by the flickering lights of his own computer, by the suburbs, and by his run-of-the-mill job. Orbiting him is a coterie of questions relating to his new status as a father, coupled with one more profoundly unanswerable question: why did his father, Vincent, kill himself? Only some of these questions are answered across a narrative that uses four different perspectives and three different timelines, from the present back to the 1970s and into the near future.' (Introduction) -
In Moonland by Miles Allinson Review : A Dreamlike Requiem for 70s Utopianism
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 7 September 2021;
— Review of In Moonland 2021 single work novel -
Books Roundup : The Psychic Tests, After the Tampa, Bodies of Light, In Moonland
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , October 2021;
— Review of Bodies of Light 2021 single work novel ; In Moonland 2021 single work novel -
A Question in Four Parts
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11 September 2021; (p. 16)
— Review of In Moonland 2021 single work novel
Awards
- 2022 highly commended Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
Last amended 7 Dec 2021 10:05:23
Settings:
- Melbourne, Victoria,
- 1970s
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