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The Philosopher's Doll

Author : Amanda Lohrey
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780143001331
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Philosopher's Doll written by Amanda Lohrey and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when one partner in a relationship wants to have a child and the other doesn't? Lindsay Eynon, a philosophy lecturer, isn't ready to start a family yet; he has other plans. But Kirsten's biological clock is ticking and she sees the world differently. As their arguments intensify, so does the probability of the unexpected . . .The Philosopher's Doll is a highly unusual, constantly surprising novel about the perennial conflict between the head and the heart. Thought-provoking and compellingly readable, it reverberates with the dilemmas of contemporary life. In a culture of affluence, what do we need in order to be happy? And just how much control do we really have over our lives?

Vertigo

Author : Amanda Lohrey
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1921870028
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Vertigo written by Amanda Lohrey and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luke and Anna, thirty-something and restless, decide on a sea change. Worn down by city life and wounded by a loss neither can talk about, they flee to a sleepy village by the coast. There, surrounded by nature, they begin to feel rejuvenated. But when bushfire threatens their new home, they must confront what they have tried to put behind them. Vertigo is a fable of love and awakening by one of Australia's finest writers, about the unexpected way emotions can return and life can change. ‘Vertigo will keep you up much too late but it’s worth a one-sitting read.’ —West Australian ‘Extraordinarily vivid and compelling ... a stunning and memorable novella’ —The Age ‘Lohrey achieves a kind of perfection’ —Sydney Morning Herald 'A carefully crafted little gem of a book’ —Advertiser

After The Celebration

Author : Ken Gelder
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522859216
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book After The Celebration written by Ken Gelder and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Celebration explores Australian fiction from 1989 to 2007, after Australia's bicentenary to the end of the Howard government. In this literary history, Ken Gelder and Paul Salzman combine close attention to Australian novels with a vivid depiction of their contexts: cultural, social, political, historical, national and transnational. From crime fiction to the postmodern colonial novel, from Australian grunge to 'rural apocalypse fiction', from the Asian diasporic novel to the action blockbuster, Gelder and Salzman show how Australian novelists such as Frank Moorhouse, Elizabeth Jolley, Peter Carey, Kim Scott, Steven Carroll, Kate Grenville, Tim Winton, Alexis Wright and many others have used their work to chart our position in the world. The literary controversies over history, identity, feminism and gatekeeping are read against the politics of the day. Provocative and compelling, After the Celebration captures the key themes and issues in Australian fiction: where we have been and what we have become.

Motherhood Memoirs: Mothers Creating/Writing Lives

Author : Justine Dymond
Publisher : Demeter Press
ISBN 13 : 1926452925
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Motherhood Memoirs: Mothers Creating/Writing Lives written by Justine Dymond and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors in this collection examine and critique motherhood memoir, alongside the texts of their own lives, while seeking to transform mothering practice— highlighting revolutionary praxis within books, or, when none is available, creating new visions for social change. Many essays interrogate the tensions of maternal narrative—the negotiation of the historical location of writer and readers, narrative and linguistic constraints, and the slippery ground of memory—as well as the borders constructed between the “objective” scholar and the reader who engages with and identifies with texts through her intellect and her emotional being.

A Short History of Richard Kline

Author : Amanda Lohrey
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1925203042
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Richard Kline written by Amanda Lohrey and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I woke with a gasp. And lay in the dark, open-mouthed, holding my breath. That feeling . . . that feeling was indescribable. For a moment I had felt as if I were falling . . . falling into bliss. All his life, Richard Kline has been haunted by a sense that something is lacking. He envies the ease with which others slip into contented suburban life or the pursuit of wealth. As he moves into middle age, Richard grows angry, cynical, depressed. But then a strange event, a profound epiphany, awakens him to a different way of life. He finds himself on a quest, almost against his will, to resolve the “divine discontent” he has suffered since childhood. From pharmaceuticals to New Age therapies to finding a guru, Richard's journey dramatises the search for meaning in today's world. This audacious novel is an exploration of masculinity, the mystical and our very human yearning for something more. It is hypnotic, nuanced and Amanda Lohrey's finest offering yet - a pilgrim's progress for the here and now. Shortlisted, 2015 Queensland Literary Awards Shortlisted, 2015 Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prizes Longlisted, 2016 Stella Prize ‘Lohrey’s language throughout the novel is a searing delight ... Without patronising, disparaging or becoming a sentimental accomplice, she gets inside the head of a serious man congenitally on the brink.’ —Age ‘The nature of such mystical questing requires a steadiness of pace and a commanding style in order to prevent it floating up and away into the unfathomable ... Lohrey’s skill is in keeping us suspended in the cocoon of an idea – “Is this all there is?’ – a question that hums in and out of our own lives during the day, but which can suddenly ring out on dark nights with a deafening thunder.’ —Saturday Paper ‘[A] lyrical, bold exploration’ —Australian Book Review Amanda Lohrey is the author of the acclaimed novels Camille’s Bread, Vertigo and The Morality of Gentlemen, as well as the award-winning short story collection Reading Madame Bovary. She has also written two Quarterly Essays: Groundswell and Voting for Jesus. In 2012 she was awarded the Patrick White Literary Award.

Quarterly Essay 23 The History Question

Author : Inga Clendinnen
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458798607
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Quarterly Essay 23 The History Question written by Inga Clendinnen and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third Quarterly Essay for 2006, Inga Clendinnen looks past the skirmishes and pitched battles of the history wars and asks what's at stake - what kind of history do we want and need? Should our historians be producing the ''''''''objective record of achievement'''''''' that the Prime Minister has called for? For Clendinnen, historians cannot be the midwives of national identity and also be true to their profession: history cannot do the work of myth. Clendinnen illuminates the ways in which history, myth and fiction differ from one another, and why the differences are important. In discussing what good history looks like, she pays tribute to the human need for story telling but notes the distinctive critical role of the historian. She offers a spirited critique of Kate Grenville's novel The Secret River, and discusses the Stolen Generations and the role of morality in history writing. This is an eloquent and stimulating essay about a subject that has generated much heat in recent times: how we should record and regard the nation's past. ''''''''Who owns the past? In a free society, everyone. It is a magic pudding belonging to anyone who wants to cut themselves a slice, from legend manufacturers through novelists looking for ready - made plots, to interest groups out to extend their influence.'''''''' - Inga Clendinnen, The History Question.

The Labyrinth: Winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award

Author : Amanda Lohrey
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1922458465
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book The Labyrinth: Winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award written by Amanda Lohrey and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erica Marsden’s son, an artist, has been imprisoned for homicidal negligence. In a state of grief, Erica cuts off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a quiet hamlet on the south-east coast near the prison where he is serving his sentence. There, in a rundown shack, she obsesses over creating a labyrinth by the ocean. To build it—to find a way out of her quandary—Erica will need the help of strangers. And that will require her to trust, and to reckon with her past. The Labyrinth is a hypnotic story of guilt and denial, of the fraught relationship between parents and children, that is also a meditation on how art can both be ruthlessly destructive and restore sanity. This multi-award-winning bestseller shows Amanda Lohrey to be at the peak of her powers.

Australian Book Review

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australian Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Drylands

Author : Thea Astley
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 192562661X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Drylands written by Thea Astley and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This will be a book for the world’s last reader, she decided, chewing pen-end over an open exercise book. In the dying town of Drylands, Janet Deakin sells papers to lonely locals. At night, in her flat above the newsagency, she attempts to write a novel for a world in which no one reads—‘full of people, she envisaged, glaring at a screen that glared glassily back.’ Drylands is the story of the townsfolk’s harsh, violent lives. Trenchant and brilliant, Thea Astley’s final novel is a dark portrait of outback Australia in decline. Thea Astley was born in Brisbane in 1925. Her first novel, Girl with a Monkey, was published in 1958 and her third, The Well Dressed Explorer (1962), won the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Many notable books followed, among them the groundbreaking A Kindness Cup (1974), which addressed frontier massacres of Indigenous Australians, and It’s Raining in Mango (1987). Her last novel was Drylands (1999), her fourth Miles Franklin winner. Her fiction is distinguished by vivid imagery and metaphor; a complex, ironic style; and a desire to highlight oppression and social injustice. One of the most distinctive and influential Australian novelists of the twentieth century, Astley died in 2004. ‘It is impossible to put this book down. It seethes with energy and passion.’ Herald Sun 'Wonderful.' Australian

Feminist Periodicals

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Periodicals written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Monsieur Linh and His Child

Author : Philippe Claudel
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0857385712
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book Monsieur Linh and His Child written by Philippe Claudel and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traumatized by memories of his war-ravaged country, his son and daughter-in-law dead, Monsieur Linh travels to a foreign land to bring the child in his arms to safety. To begin with, he is too afraid to leave the refugee centre, but the first time he braves the freezing cold to walk the streets of this strange, fast-moving town, he encounters Monsieur Bark, a widower whose dignified sorrow mirrors his own. Though they have no shared language, an instinctive friendship is forged; but Monsieur Linh's stay in the dormitory is only temporary. Sooner or later he and his child must find a permanent home. Delicate and restrained, but with an extraordinary twist, Monsieur Linh and His Child is an immensely moving novel of perfect simplicity, by the author of Brodeck's Report.

21st-Century Novel

Author : Jonathan Bastable
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748698353
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book 21st-Century Novel written by Jonathan Bastable and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is in part an anthology of the best of accounts of the World Writers Conference and also an overview of the lively wide-ranging global debate that the authors' views engendered among the many writers who took part.

In the Fog of the Seasons' End

Author : Alex La Guma
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 147860932X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book In the Fog of the Seasons' End written by Alex La Guma and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Gumas powerful, firsthand account depicts the dedicated South African people who risked their lives in the underground movement against apartheid. The main characters, Beukes and Elias, are among others determined to undermine apartheids blatant oppression and demeaning tactics. The authors knack for rich descriptions and weaving the past with the present transports readers to the grind of working in an underground political organization and the challenges of confronting hardships, change, and injustice on a daily basis.

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Commonwealth Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One number each year includes Annual bibliography of Commonwealth literature.

Camille's Bread

Author : Amanda Lohrey
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 1460715020
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Camille's Bread written by Amanda Lohrey and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After too many nights of takeaway pizzas, Marita wants just one year off to look after her daughter, Camille. then she meets Stephen, a public servant in the complex process of reinventing himself, training as a shiatsu masseur. As their relationship grows, so does the drama of parenting Camille, in this elegantly crafted, warmly appealing novel of contemporary Australian life.

The Best Australian Stories

Author : Black Inc.
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1921870168
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Best Australian Stories written by Black Inc. and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best of the best ... This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Stories and selects the most outstanding short fiction by the country’s finest writers. These stories range widely in style and subject matter: there is drama and comedy, subtlety and extravagance, tales of suspense, love, fantasy, grief and revenge. Together they showcase the strength and diversity of Australian fiction at its very best. Contributors include: Murray Bail, Dorothy Johnston, Anna Krien, Patrick Cullen, Nicholas Shakespeare, Nam Le, Robert Drewe, Mandy Sayer, Paddy O’Reilly, Janette Turner Hospital, Delia Falconer, Kate Grenville, Peter Goldsworthy, Cate Kennedy, Eva Hornung, Gillian Mears, Steven Amsterdam, Tom Cho, Jessica Anderson, Campbell Mattinson, Luke Davies, Emily Ballou, Marion Halligan, Karen Hitchcock, Frank Moorhouse, Will Elliott, Amanda Lohrey, Tim Richards, Tara June Winch, Joan London, Liam Davison, Michael Meehan, Sonya Hartnett, Chloe Walker, Ryan O’Neill, Gerald Murnane and Tim Winton.

Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart

Author : J.D. Greear
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433679183
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart written by J.D. Greear and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If there were a Guinness Book of World Records entry for ‘amount of times having prayed the sinner’s prayer,’ I’m pretty sure I’d be a top contender,” says pastor and author J. D. Greear. He struggled for many years to gain an assurance of salvation and eventually learned he was not alone. “Lack of assurance” is epidemic among evangelical Christians. In Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart, J. D. shows that faulty ways of present- ing the gospel are a leading source of the confusion. Our presentations may not be heretical, but they are sometimes misleading. The idea of “asking Jesus into your heart” or “giving your life to Jesus” often gives false assurance to those who are not saved—and keeps those who genuinely are saved from fully embracing that reality. Greear unpacks the doctrine of assurance, showing that salvation is a posture we take to the promise of God in Christ, a posture that begins at a certain point and is maintained for the rest of our lives. He also answers the tough questions about assurance: What exactly is faith? What is repentance? Why are there so many warnings that seem to imply we can lose our salvation? Such issues are handled with respect to the theological rigors they require, but Greear never loses his pastoral sensitivity or a communication technique that makes this message teachable to a wide audience from teens to adults.