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Lech Blaine is a writer from Toowoomba, Queensland. His work appears in The Best Australian Essays, Meanjin, The Guardian and The Monthly, among others. His work has been nominated for several prizes and he was an inaugural recipient of a Griffith Review Queensland Writers Fellowship.

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	Australian Gospel: A Family Saga 4.41 avg rating — 3,829 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Car Crash: A Memoir of the Aftermath 4.31 avg rating — 1,830 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power (Quarterly Essay #83) 4.33 avg rating — 597 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics (Quarterly Essay #93) 4.14 avg rating — 379 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Growing Up in Country Australia by Rick Morton (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tony Armstrong (Contributor), Claire Baker (Contributor) 3.81 avg rating — 263 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best Australian Essays 2017 by Anna Goldsworthy (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Shannon Burns (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Barry Humphries (Contributor) 4.10 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Millennials Strike Back (Griffith Review, #56) by Julianne Schultz (Editor), Jerath Head (Contributor), Courtney Landers (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 20 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tincture Journal, Issue Twelve, Summer 2015 by Daniel Young (Editor), Stuart Barnes (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Karen Andrews (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Car Crash by Lech Blaine, Unknown Author it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Car Crash by Lech Blaine, Unknown Author 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“My puberty was spent deciding which identity was the real me and which the alter ego. The artist saw the larrikin as a shallow socialite. The larrikin saw the artist as a miserable elitist. Why did I need to pick sides?”
― Lech Blaine, Car Crash: A Memoir

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“Class in most places is about making the differences visible," say novelist Richard Flanagan, who grew up in a working-class mining community before receiving a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford. "Class in Australia is about making the differences invisible".”
― Lech Blaine, Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power

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“It all changed," he says. "The miners in Ipswich joined a union and voted Labor. But young ones coming through didn't think of themselves as working class. They moved to the Sunny Coast. Four-bedroom house. Couple of cars. Most of them became anti-union! Dumb fucks thought they got paid 200k just because they're good at their jobs. Nothin' to do with my generation and my dad's generation, and the sacrifices we made by going on strike”
― Lech Blaine, Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power

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