The Literary Lunch: Selected Stories by Geoffrey
Field Dean
A feast of fiction celebrating nearly 50 years of acclaimed
writing.
The 19 short stories in this collection are a kind of ‘greatest
hits’ retrospective of a distinguished literary career that is
far from over.
GEOFF Dean's stories have appeared around the world,
even alongside those of Margaret Atwood and Kurt Vonnegut, and he
has received numerous awards and high praise from luminaries such
as Thea Astley.
In fact, Astley was among the first to note what she described as
his ‘haunting and poetic quality’. Various critics have
compared aspects of his work with Anton Chekov, Katherine Mansfield,
Somerset Maugham, A.E. Coppard and William Faulkner.
In the decades since his first publication, Dean’s mastery
of the short story has been proved by the publication of scores of
his stories around the world, and a truly enviable swag of prizes,
awards, commendations, laudatory reviews and praise.
His major credits include the State of Victoria Short
Story Award and the Northern Territory Literary Awards Arafura Short
Story Award. The title story from his collection Summerbird and Other
Stories (William Collins 1989) was translated for an anthology of
Australian writers published in China in 1992. His story ‘The Town
that Died’ was selected by the late Thea Astley as compiler, for
inclusion in Coast to Coast: Australian Stories 1969-1970, and
in 1986 was made into an ABC TV tele-drama broadcast in Australia and
sold overseas.
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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)
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