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Moorhouse, Frank. The State of the Art: the Mood of Contemporary Australia in Short Stories

Moorhouse, Frank. <em>The State of the Art: the Mood of Contemporary Australia in Short Stories</em>

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Category: SHORT STORIES Tags: Frank Moorhouse, Penguin, The State of the Art
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The State of the Art: the Mood of Contemporary Australia in Short Stories
by Frank Moorhouse.

Edited by Frank Moorhouse.

Penguin, Ringwood, 1983.

First Edition paperback.

Originally published in 1983, the collection was selected by writer Frank Moorhouse, one of the driving forces behind the short story revival of the 1970s and 1980s. There is a scattering of older writers in this collection. Olga Masters. Fay Zwicky and Nene Gare, best known for her novel The Fringe Dwellers (1961), made the grade. More notably, the collection brings together youngish mainstream and experimental writers of the era.

The collection includes Helen Garner’s brilliant feminist satire ‘Did He Pay?’ about a rock guitarist on the skids; ‘Hospital’, prose skat by performance poet Ania Walwicz; and the Queer lit prose/poem ‘Working Hot’ by Mary Fallon, later turned into the novel of the same name and published by the women’s publishing collective Sybylla Press in 1989.

Condition: Curl to front and back corners, otherwise very good.

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