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Cover art © Giles Hugo 2004
The Literary Lunch: Selected Stories, by
Geoffrey Field Dean (Tasmania, Australia) edited by Giles Hugo.
Publication date: 18 November 2004
ISBN 0 9756797 0 8
"Geoff Dean ... one of the dark horses of Australian literature"
(Sandy McCutcheon, Australia Talks Books, 26/11/2004)
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about Dean's previous books
about The Literary Lunch
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Reviews of The Literary Lunch
have appeared in:
- The Age, 8/1/2005 Review section p.4 (Cameron Woodhead);
- The Saturday Mercury, 1/1/2005 (Robert Cox);
- The Sunday Tasmanian, 19/12/2005 (Christopher Bantick)
- JAS
Review of books, n.34, June 2005 (Bianca Ferguson, Unimelb)
High praise for Dean's writing:
Review by Cameron Woodhead, The Age, Review section:
Books, Saturday, January 8, 2005.
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 wel ded to an unpretentiousness
that both counterpoises and intensifies its musicality. At the
same time, he displays a dark, satirical streak: tales of sinister
clowns at the Adelaide Writers Week, or the boy who gets kicked
out of a posh school for revealin g his father's ignominious profession,
are written with Dean's unique self-denigrating flair and a talent
for dissecting pomposity. He's a writer's writer and his vision
of the author resembles that of Proust's Bergotte: a character
capable of artistic heroism only by virtue of his abject human
failings. In spite of that (or perhaps because of it) 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, Saturday, January 8, 2005
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Poetry:
Cover art © Giles Hugo 2005
Chaos Theory of the Heart and other poems mainly
since 1990, by Lionel Abrahams (copublished with Jacana Media,
Johannesburg, South Africa)
Australian edition available from Roaring Forties
Press.
Launched on 23 June 2005 by Ralph Spaulding.
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