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Amanda Lohrey
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On a recent trip to Sydney I was urged by friends to visit a new butcher shop in the wealthy suburb of Woollahra. At first I was resistant – a butcher shop? Go, they said. It has to be seen to be believed.The establishment formerly known as Churchill’s Butchery has become a source of local...
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Accounts of adult lives often lapse into flat chronicle mode. They can be partial in their truths – when not downright evasive – and constrained by concern for the sensitivities of the living, or the eagle eye of the defamation lawyer. But memoirs of childhood tend towards greater narrative urgency...
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Amanda Lohrey | Literature | Public event | Sydney | Sydney Writers' Festival | Culture
Part 1 | Part 2 Novellas and short stories versus the novel: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Robert Drewe and Amanda Lohrey have all written novels but selected shorter forms for their latest books. At this Sydney Writers' Festival event they explain their attraction to these precise forms to Kevin Ra... » play video
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Amanda Lohrey | The Monthly Essays | August 2009 | Society & Culture
I could not remember another time when a newsreader had been elevated above bishops at an important state memorial service, yet no one in the media remarked on it. This, I believe, is a direct outcome of the fact that for over three decades Australians have been attending weddings and funerals...
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Jacinta Halloran is a Melbourne medical practitioner, as is the heroine of her first novel, Dissection. Anna McBride is 43, a competent GP, the wife of an architect and mother of two small boys. Every day she juggles the demands of being a good woman, at home and at work, until one small mistake in...
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The celebrated American writer Annie Proulx is now in her seventies, and it's possible to look back on her impressive list of publications and identify two distinct genres at work. The first of these is the comic novel of baroque folksiness that documents the culture of a remote regional...
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Amanda Lohrey | The Nation Reviewed | March 2008 | Society & Culture
On 8 January 2006, in the Sydney suburb of Mosman, a silver Lexus belonging to the retired Federal Court judge and Living National Treasure Marcus Einfeld was clocked above the speed limit. Einfeld, facing a fine of $77, denied that he was in the car at the time, claiming he had loaned it to an old...
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Amanda Lohrey | The Monthly Essays | February 2008 | Environment | Politics
Milne is delayed, which gives me a moment to enjoy the view from her office. It's a big glassed-in semicircle that looks down the Derwent River towards the Great Southern Ocean, where ice is melting at a more accelerated rate than was predicted even five years ago. In the days of the early...
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Dear Virginia, It's good to hear from you again, and I'm delighted to learn that you have decided to enrol in Cultural Studies 101. In light of this you might be interested in some books that have come my way recently on the subject of religion. There has, as you know, been a great deal of...
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In the years since then, I’ve observed with enduring fascination the many parents I’ve known who have agonised over their children’s schooling. Is there any decision that causes more angst and sleepless nights? Will the child be happy and make friends? Will she learn and develop her skills? Is the...
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