FEATHER MAN
From parochial Brisbane of the 1950s, Sookie
tries to escape her eccentric childhood where sinister sexuality is on
the loose, and paint her way to better chances in the swinging London
of the 1970s. Vastly intelligent, this dark comedy of the fictions of
the heart is an edgy and dangerous work of portraiture.
“Brilliant, a fantastic achievement, full of the most terrific portraits…
one of those books we will always remember… she joins a small group of
writers who have created characters who are not necessarily sympathetic
but we are totally on their side… a book of lasting power and beauty…
and funny – I laughed out loud.” Rodney Hall
“Highly original… extraordinarily well-written… told within a brilliant
and exact mise-en-scene… wrapped in finely ironic and analytically acute
prose… the way it is organized is very much what the Balzacs and Updikes
of this world use to make their own structures… [she] shares with them
a control of intention as [she] does also with Donna Tartt… I truly admire
it.” Peter Porter
ISBN 1 876040 83 1
$26.95
309 pp pb
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