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Brought to you by Penguin. The astonishing true story of trust, pain, becoming lost, and finding a way back to yourself despite it all.What happens when a writer can no longer write? What happens when pain is so intense that you question who you are and whether you can bare it any longer?Oliver Mol was a successful, clever, healthy twenty-five-year old. Then one day the migraine started.For ten months, the pain was constant, exacerbated by writing, reading, using computers, looking at phones or anything with a screen. Slowly he became a writer who no longer wrote, and a person who could no longer could communicate with the modern world. In literature, and life, Oliver began to disappear.His doctors can''t figure out how to fix him. He suffers a breakdown. One evening, high on pain killers, Oliver Googles the only thing he can think of: ''full-time job, no experience, Sydney''. An ad for a train guard appears and, desperate, Oliver takes it.For two years Oliver will watch others live their lives, observing the minutia and intimacy of strangers brought together briefly and connected by the steady march of time.Exquisitely written and bravely told, Train Lord is a searingly personal yet universal book, which asks what happens when your sense of self is suddenly destroyed, and how you get it back.© Oliver Mol 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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From an inaugural winner of the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers comes a funny, energetic coming-of-age story that isn''t quite like any other book you''ll read this year.Oliver is a writer who''s just moved cities. He doesn''t have any friends yet; he can''t get his surly flatmate, Mark, to crack a smile; and the only people who talk to him are the odd assortment of characters at the KeepCup warehouse where he works, plugging lids into cups in an endless cycle.His hours consist of daydreams: sweet, touching reveries of driving down the freeway with the girl of his dreams, and outlandish fantasies of bursting through the roof at bedroom store Snooze.Oliver is lonely. For the most part, he is sleepwalking through life. At nights, he begins to write memories of growing up in pre-9/11 America, as he finds himself thinking of his childhood in Texas. But when he meets up with Lisa, the girl he''s been writing to on Facebook, things begin to change.Lion Attack! is a startlingly original, ambitious work about a young man trying to navigate contemporary Australia and his own life. Part romance, part tragicomedy, and part social critique, it is hilarious, poignant, and ultimately deeply moving.
PRAISE FOR OLIVER MOL
‘Oliver Mol: king of a new jungle.’ Rolling Stone
‘With Lion Attack! Mol offers a funny, affecting and accessible reflection on his youth and the nature of memory. [Mol’s] voice is earnest, exuberant, and alive with a beat that will get stuck in your head … Lion Attack! is Mol speaking frankly about who he is … he''s kind, he tries hard and he''s written a book unlike anything you''ve ever read before.’ Readings Monthly