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Masterpieces, Arts & Letters
Fiction Masterpiece: JM Coetzee - 'Summertime', 2009
Geordie Williamson
Is it a cheat to suggest this quasi-memoir by a South African–born Nobel Prize winner as the best work of Australian fiction since the dawn...
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Strange Beasts: Sonya's Hartnett's 'Midnight Zoo'
Geordie Williamson
Two boys enter a small town under cover of darkness, one of them carrying a baby in swaddling. It is Europe in wartime; even so, the...
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'Indelible Ink' by Fiona McGregor
Geordie Williamson
On meeting Marie King, the heroine of Fiona McGregor’s fourth novel, I was reminded of Brett Whiteley’s painting of an ageing society...
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'Lovesong' by Alex Miller : Allen & Unwin, 272pp; $39.99
Geordie Williamson
“In tragic life,” wrote George Meredith in Modern Love, a savage poetic account of the breakdown of his marriage, “No villain need be!...
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'Zeitoun' by Dave Eggers
Geordie Williamson
Dave Eggers first met Abdulrahman Zeitoun during a visit to New Orleans, following the launch of Voices from the Storm, a volume of oral...
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