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Moral Hazard
by Kate Jennings.
Picador, Sydney, 2002.
First Edition (rejected copy), hardback. 192 pp.
Jacket Photograph: Sarah Black.
‘Moral Hazard is not so much a study of Wall Street, or Alzheimer’s, as a reading of the perennial problems of youth, idealism and loss, and the ways in which compromised, middle-aged characters might contrive to nurture a remnant poetry of their youthful selves, both literally and figuratively, while renting out their souls to the devil. It is also a work of considerable formal beauty, playing as it does off two parallel models of chaos, the so-called free market and the degenerative brain (Alzheimer’s), though this is not to say that the novella is schematic. Like the best poetry it makes subtle and suggestive connections with an economy of method that says little and reveals much.’ (Amanda Lowry, ‘Short and Sweet’, The Age, 18 May 2002).
Condition: Minor wear to bottom boards, otherwise dustjacket, boards and pages in excellent condition.
