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SUMMARY:Dominic Amerena - I Want Everything 
LOCATION:Geelong Library and Heritage Centre (The Dome)\nGeelong Library a
 nd Heritage Centre (The Dome)
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DESCRIPTION:This astonishing debut\, full of delicious twists and wicked i
 nsights\, is a dazzling novel of desire and deception\, authorship and aut
 henticity\, and the costs of creative ambition..\nhttps://grlc.libnet.info
 /event/13265093
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><strong>It starts with a lie. One small li
 e to get everything he wants. But one lie leads to another\, and another. 
 Caught in his own web of deception\, how can he recognise the truth? And w
 hat is it going to cost him?</strong></p>\n<p>The legendary career of recl
 usive cult author Brenda Shales remains one of Australia&rsquo\;s last uns
 olved literary mysteries. Her books took the world by storm before she dis
 appeared from the public eye after a mysterious&nbsp\;plagiarism case. But
  when an ambitious young writer stumbles across Brenda at a Melbourne pool
 \, he realises the scoop of a lifetime is floating in front of him: the tr
 uth behind why she vanished without a trace. The<br />only problem? He mus
 t pretend to be someone he&rsquo\;s not to trick the story out of her.</p>
 \n<p>One innocent lie leads to a slew that are definitively not\, as Brend
 a reveals the strange and troubling truth of where her books came from. Ye
 t the more the author unravels about Brenda&rsquo\;s past\, the more he be
 gins&nbsp\;to question whether Brenda is a reliable narrator. Is she spill
 ing secrets or spinning tales? Is she\, like him\, little more than a tale
 nted thief? To write the book that will make his name\, he must balance hi
 s ethics and ambition and decide what he&rsquo\;s willing to sacrifice to 
 become the next great Australian writer.</p>\n<p>Dominic will be in conver
 sation with local author\, Mark Smith.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><strong>About the 
 Author</strong></p>\n<p>Dominic Amerena is an Australian writer whose work
  has been widely published and anthologised. He has won numerous prizes\, 
 scholarships\, fellowships\, and grants\, including the Vil La Joana Resid
 ency\, the Hawthornden Fellowship\, the inaugural Speculate Prize\, an Aus
 tralia Council New Work Grant and the Alan Marshall Short Story Award. He 
 has a PhD from the University of RMIT and he lives between Melbourne and A
 thens\, Greece.&nbsp\;<em>I Want Everything</em>&nbsp\;is his debut novel.
 </p>\n<p></p>\n<p><strong>This is a free event but bookings are required.<
 /strong></p>\n<p><em>Book sales and author signings will be offered at thi
 s event.</em></p>\n<p><em>If you require any assistance with attending thi
 s event\, please notify us of your access requirements via&nbsp\;events@gr
 lc.vic.gov.au&nbsp\;or 4201 0600 at least two weeks prior to the event dat
 e.&nbsp\;</em></p>\nhttps://grlc.libnet.info/event/13265093
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