Forty Seventeen

Literature & Fiction

MOORHOUSE, FRANK

Classics

Viking Pr

A celebration of a great Australian love affair, 'The Drover's Wife' in the Australian imagination- stories, performances and images. Since Henry Lawson wrote his story 'The Drover's Wife' in 1892, Australian writers, painters, performers and photographers have created a wonderful tradition of drover's wife works, stories and images. The Russell Drysdale painting from 1945 extended the mythology and it, too, has become an Australian icon. Other versions of the Lawson story have been written by Murray Bail, Barbara Jefferis, Mandy Sayer, David Ireland, Madeleine Watts and others, up to the present, including Leah Purcell's play and Ryan O'Neill's graphic novel. In essays and commentary, Frank Moorhouse examines our ongoing fascination with this story and has collected some of the best pieces of writing on the subject. This remarkable, gorgeous book is, he writes, 'a monument to the drovers' wives'.

The Drover's Wife

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Knopf Australia

Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Five years have passed since Edith Campbell Berry's triumphant arrival at the League of Nations in Geneva, determined to right the wrongs of the world. The idealism of those early Grand Days has been eroded by a sense foreboding as the world moves ever closer to another war. Edith's life too, has changed: her marriage and her work are no longer the anchors in her life she is restless, unsure, feeling the weight of history upon her and her world. As her certainties crumble, Edith is once again joined by Ambrose Westwood, her old friend and lover. Their reunion is joyful, and her old anxiety about their unconventional relationship is replaced by a feeling that all things are possible at least in her private life. But World War II advances inexorably, and Edith, Ambrose and their fellow officers must come to terms with the knowledge that their best efforts and those of the well-meaning world are simply useless against the forces of the time. Moving, wise and utterly engrossing, this is a profound and enriching novel. Grand Days and Dark Palace confirm Frank Moorhouse as one of our greatest writers a master of tone and timing, an elegant and exuberant stylist, and an unerring chronicler of the human spirit.

Dark Palace

Penguin Books Australia

Sean--a just-turned-forty Australian--is obsessed with a seventeen-year-old, and in his quest for her follows a trail through many countries and introduces the many women with whom he interacts

Forty-Seventeen

British & Irish

Harcourt

The Americans, baby: A discontinuous narrative of stories and fragments

Short Stories & Anthologies

Angus and Robertson

A timeless collection of stories exploring physical and psychological boundaries, some tentatively and others with vigour.In The Americans, Baby the milieu is a Sydney under-40 population who, hoping that being earnest or outrageous will make them feel real, are left saturated with anxiety instead. An inherent resistance to American cultural intrusions and the risks that those from a great powerful land such as the US take when they meddle in another culture (they can be snared, seduced, destroyed) are explored with traditional Moorhouse flair and wit. These stories are timeless in their concerns, and explore ideology, idealism, conflict, relationships and sex.

Futility and other animals

Angus&Robertson

Conference-Ville

Coca Cola Kid: Selected Stories

Futility and Other Animals

HarperCollins Publishers, Incorporated

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