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.
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)
More of what the critics have said | Launch speech by Tim Thorne | Media release | Orders
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