Jay Ives is the author of eight books, including bestselling the novels Across the Street, Perfect Kisses and World of Ducks. His work has been published internationally in English and also in translation, and this led to him being a finalist in the Premier of South Australia’s Awards for Export Achievement in 2008.
Across the Street won a Steven Tiller Award in the UK in 2004, and is currently being developed into a play.Jay is seen as a leader in urban lad lit, with a unique gift of explaining the ackwardness in life.
He has an honours degree in English Literature from the University of Adelaide, and has lived in Adelaide since migrating as an eight-year-old from Huntington, England in 1987, with his father a decorated solder from the Falklands Islands and his mother a former Honduran government minister.
It was an eventful adolescence.
London’s Daily Standard newspaper has called him ‘the first Aussie to make me laugh out loud since Alf from Home and Away’ and he is a mongrel stereotype.
His latest novel is Rhino and the hand of fate, co-written with his wife.
Mixed Metaphors is his first collection of reviews, re-tellings and short stories.
Across the Street is novel about nothing that goes nowhere. Self-indulgent and limp, it's not even funny. Lad Lit? Bad Lit!
ReplyDeleteAcross the Street - Seriously one of my favourite books.
ReplyDeleteHave read it over and over.
Hurt myself laughing each time.
I identify with this book because it was written by a local author who is well educated, yet has a perchant for toilet humour.
I love the gags in it. His characters are always brilliant and the scenarios he describes are sooo funny.
I would recommend this to anyone. It's truly great. Jay Ives is a legend!