About the Author:
Shirley Barrett is best known for her work as a screenwriter and director. Her film Love Serenade won the Caméra d'Or for best first feature at the Cannes Film Festival in 1996. In 2010, the script for her film South Solitary won the Queensland Premier's Prize and the West Australian Premier's Prize. Rush Oh! is her first novel. She lives in Sydney, Australia.
Review:
"Barrett writes with a warmth and humor that lift the story free of its historical sources.... A fresh and subversive take on a genre traditionally owned by male leviathans like Melville and Hemingway."―Tom Gilling, New York Times Book Review
"Irresistible.... RUSH OH! is an elegiac tale...but Mary's voice is so fresh and Ms. Barrett's sidewinding story so spry and amusing that readers will think less of endings than of the auspicious start to a novelist's career."―Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
"One of the genuinely addictive books of the season."―Meredith Turits, ELLE
"Wonderfully crisp.... [An] epic tale."―Karen Bender, O: The Oprah Magazine
"Beautiful and brutal, witty and kind, RUSH OH! is a story of great surprises and a beating heart--a book to never forget."―Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief
"Vividly portrays the hunt as well as its moral ambiguities."―Editors' Choice, New York Times Book Review
"A charming coming-of-age tale."―Tom Beer, Newsday
"RUSH OH! is a masterpiece. It's human, heart-stopping, heart-warming, and hilarious, and I fell instantly, lastingly in love."―Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places and The Ice Master
"[Barrett's] vivid and visual storytelling transfers perfectly to the page."―Peter Meinertzhagen, Electric Literature
"Funny and sweet and wonderful."―Book Riot
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