Everything I Knew
by Peter Goldsworthy
Hamish Hamilton/Penguin

Universe, Milky Way, Solar System, Earth, Australia, South Australia, Penola, Church Street, 26, December 63.” These are the opening lines of Everything I Knew, Peter Goldsworthy’s excellent new book set in the South East in the mid 1960s. His narrator begins with a kind of GPS mantra – spiraling from the universal to the locally, prosaically particular. The lines nicely echo Stephen Dedalus in that other bildungsroman, or novel of …