Analogue Men

Description

Do you ever feel like you might have just one more chance to get on top of your life and make things happen? They re starting to feel like analogue men trying to make sense of a digital age. Andrew Van Fleet is 49 and feeling 50 closing in. He s bailed out of his private equity job for something that ll let him spend more time at home, but the house is overrun by iPads and teenage hormones and conversations that have moved on without him. Plus his ailing father is now lodged in the granny flat, convalescing from surgery and with his scrappy bulldog in tow. And then there s Brian Brightman, the expensive fading star at the radio station Andrew s signed up to manage, whose every broadcast offers fresh trouble. He s 49 too and, like Andrew, starting to wonder if the twenty-first century might prove to be his second best.

Nick Earls is the author of fourteen books, including bestselling novels Zigzag Street, Bachelor Kisses and Perfect Skin. His work has been published internationally in English and in translation. Zigzag Street won a Betty Trask Award in the UK in 1998, and Perfect Skin was the only novel nominated for an Australian Comedy Award in 2003. 48 Shades of Brown was awarded Book of the Year (older readers) by the Children's Book Council of Australia in 2000, and in the US it was a Kirkus Reviews selection in its books of the year for 2004. 48 Shades of Brown and Perfect Skin have been adapted into feature films and the Zigzag Street play toured nationally in 2005. The True Story of Butterfish was also performed as a play. His most recent books include The Fix and Welcome to Normal.