Alter-ego Sloan James and photographer Kial James Menadue set out to pursue their dreams of being a writer/photographer troupe in this beat-paced, spontaneous-prose-driven, dark-comedy, adventure novel. Richard (Goodreads): "Very good book, definitely one of my favourite reads in recent memory. Entertaining, engaging, thought-provoking, and also genuinely funny, in an absurdist "did he really just say that" type of way. Simply loved it." Georgia (Goodreads): "Like Kerouac's On The Road but better" @glue.boy_ (Instagram): "Such a good book. It'll be the read I foie gras to everyone for the next while." @jaidynpoetry (Instagram): "I gotta say it. This looks like it could be one of the greatest Australian novels of the decade." Alex Sutcliffe: "I read Stayin' Alive in Channel Country. I was wondering how you were going to sustain the energy I'd seen in your shorter pieces in a longer work, but it works even better because it has time to build and change and also because you're in pursuit of a great white whale: meaning. The near relentless negativity and cynicism of the narrator is also great. I wasn't sold on his/your worldview at first, but as it goes on it really convinced me that his/your approach (a stubborn refusal to meet anyone half way, which would just be half way into hell) is authentic and honest. Also I don't think I've read anyone writing interestingly about masculinity, definitely not in this way, in ages." @iainwilsonart (Instagram): "Great book... very funny, thought provoking and engaging. I highly recommend." @bookrunner_au (Instagram): "@cigi.butt.sloan gave me a proof of this a long time ago and I can safely say that this collaboration between @cigi.butt.sloan and @kialmenadue deserves your patronage and curiosity." @blakehohenhaus (Instagram): [Partial review] "hey mate! we met at your book launch back in June, and i finished it last weekend. just wanted to say thanks for the chats and everything at the launch, and that i really loved the book! your words really flew off the page, and i blitzed through it. even though "nothing" happened, everything did. the narrative you constructed out of a bizarre sequence of less-than-'successful' events was really powerful. i loved your observational prose, i found it utterly compelling and frankly inspiring. you wrote with a frankness that made me trust you as a narrator, even when you were forthcoming in..." @liam_oliver1 (Instagram): "Mate this book is fucking flawless in the most flawed way. Well fucking done I'm sitting in a busy Cafe laughing my head off."