Lust: stories from Australian and New Zealand writers Michael Gifkins (ed) Vintage, $24.95 ISBN 186941 2435 Of the seven deadly sins, most of us have a predilection for one or two. If two are combined, like sloth and gluttony, it…
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Travelling through fiction, Charles Ferrall
The Good Tourist and the Laughing Cadaver Michael Gifkins (ed) Vintage, 1993, $24.95 Visiting a library in Timbuktu, an actual town in the central west African country of Mali, the Australian writer Murray Bail is told by an Islamic…
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Tagged with: Charles Ferrall, Issue 9, Michael Gifkins, Vintage, Winter 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The fall of a decent joker, Michael Gifkins
The Autobiography of My Father Martin Edmond, Auckland University Press, $29.95 There is an entry in the book of New Zealand literary politics which reads: Edmond, Trevor, schoolteacher, husband of Lauris, poet (late-flowering); father of (inter alia) Martin, scriptwriter, see…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 7, Lauris Edmond, Martin Edmond, Michael Gifkins, Summer 1992, Trevor Edmond
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review