Review

Sweeney the Bicycles by Philip Salom review - a kaleidoscope of colour, place and character

By Suzannah Marshall Macbeth
January 28 2023 - 12:00am

Sweeney and the Bicycles is, like the bike wheels on the cover, a kaleidoscope - of colour, character and language, of past and present, and of suburb-specific Melbourne detail. Central to this are exquisite depictions of joy - wild, unregulated moments of escape.

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