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The Literary Lunch: Selected stories
by Geoffrey Field Dean
Edited by Giles Hugo
2004; ISBN 0 9756797 0 8; RRP: $22.95
Available here at $20
TASMANIAN author Geoffrey Dean has been writing short stories for almost 50 years and has pretty much perfected the craft. The Literary Lunch is an impressive collection of his work. Dean writes with a controlled lyricism – his prose is welded to an unpretentiousness that both counterpoises and intensifies its musicality… Dean has won many awards and plaudits from nearly every quarter. He deserves the praise; his short fiction is among the best in the country.”
The Age, Review section: Books Saturday, January 8, 2005.
This is a book to read in the heart of the city, with people milling all around, pigeons, dirt, gritty with life, and is a book to be read, then shared, and never forgotten.
Reviewer: Bianca Ferguson, JAS Review of books, n.34, June 2005.