Goddess and The Galaxy Boy

Shortlisted for the Australian/Vogel Award 2001

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Ingrid Woodrow’s wild journey of grinding collisions and hilarious near-misses propels us along a Pacific Highway of her imagination. When Galaxy Boy and his one-armed friend Houdini speed head-long into Goddess’s life, she confronts a new world of possibilities and dangerously eccentric characters.

Ben Eltham, Courier-Mail

“Woodrow is a gifted character writer. Indeed, at times she seems to portray the inner lives of her feckless drifters with the sort of effortless skill that recalls a Raymond Carver … In the character of Goddess, Woodrow has created an immensely likeable young woman with real plausability to her, the sort of character readers will turn pages for — a worthy heroine, in short.”

Nick Earls, author of Zigzag Street and Bachelor Kisses

“She takes her story, fits it with fourteen-by-eight-inch mags, a flare kit and a Chevy 350 V8, puts the pedal to the metal and here it comes.”

 

Gillian Dooley, Australian Book Review

“This is a hilarious and hair-raising road novel, with appealing characters and an ingenious structure.”