Book by Amanda Lohrey
Reading Madame Bovary ![]() First edition |
| Author | Amanda Lohrey |
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| Language | English |
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| Genre | short story collection |
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| Publisher | Black Inc |
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Publication date | 2010 |
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| Publication place | Australia |
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| Media type | Print Paperback |
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| Pages | 269 |
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| ISBN | 9781863954907 |
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| Preceded by | Vertigo |
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| Followed by | A Short History of Richard Kline |
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Reading Madame Bovary (2010) is a collection of short stories by Australian author Amanda Lohrey.[1] It won the Fiction Prize and Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award at the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards in 2011.[2]
Contents
- "Primates"
- "Reading Madame Bovary"
- "Ground Zero"
- "Freedom, Order and the Golden Bead Material"
- "Perfect"
- "The Art of Convalesence"
- "The Existence of Other Men"
- "John Lennon's Gardener"
- "Letter to the Romans"
Reviews
Carol Middleton in Overland was impressed by the stories: "Lohrey has a remarkable ability to be lyrical and profound while keeping both feet in the here and now of Australian life. For a ‘literary’ writer, she is refreshingly comfortable with the mundane minutiae of modern life (to-do lists and washing up) and, from there, teases out the themes and issues that lie beneath the surface of contemporary consciousness."[3]
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