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Restlessness

Ghost writing as recuperative practice
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May 2024, no. 464

Appreciation by Liam Pieper

Hamish Hamilton, $34.99 pb, 358 pp

Restlessness

Ghost writing as recuperative practice
by
May 2024, no. 464

‘There are only so many ways to make a story work.’ So begins Liam Pieper’s new novel, Appreciation, a hyper-contemporary chronicle of one artist’s vain attempt to redeem his reputation in the eyes of a disappointed public. Drug-addled, egomaniacal, and hopeless, Oli Darling – an enfant terrible of Australian art – is in desperate need of rehabilitation. And the advice of his equally desperate coterie? Employ a ghost writer and publish your memoir, of course. Pieper having made a career of his own in ghost writing, Appreciation cuts close to the bone. As the opening line suggests, however, there is little room for redemption when all the ways of making your story work have been exhausted.

Appreciation

Appreciation

by Liam Pieper

Hamish Hamilton, $34.99 pb, 358 pp

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