John Dos Passos

Bird John Dos Passos

Bird follows Carson, a young, cerebral Aboriginal man who traverses his way in and out of the prison system in Western Australia. The story is told through the multiple white characters Carson encounters along his journey. The novel is similar stylistically and thematically to Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting or some of the early writings of John Dos Passes, painting a picture of a modern world which is simultaneously bleak, comic and harrowing.