Great Western Highway: A Love Story [Capital, Volume One Part Two] by Anthony Macris

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. General edgewear. Book has moisture damage, causing pages to swell and stain. Book is still readable with all pages separated.

Great Western Highway is Anthony Macris' second novel following the award-winning Capital, Volume One. It brilliantly charts our troubled journey into the free-market renaissance that has completely reshaped how we live and love.

Thirty-something Nick is walking down Parramatta Road's six lanes of thundering traffic to see his former girlfriend Penny for the first time since they agreed to be 'just friends'. By the novel's end, he is racing back up that same road so he doesn't lose her.

Nick and Penny's awkward romance is played out against the backdrop of high capitalism and the rise of the digital age. Bombarded by advertisements, slogans, news, wars, politics and consumerism, just a little silence is hard to find.

Even in the bedroom with the woman he wants so much to love, Nick's mind spirals off to other times and places. (publisher blurb)