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| Title | : | Forty-Seventeen |
| Author | : | Frank Moorhouse |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 332 pages |
| Published | : | July 1991 (first published June 1st 1989) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Short Stories. Cultural. Australia |
Frank Moorhouse
Paperback | Pages: 332 pages Rating: 3.56 | 52 Users | 7 Reviews
Narration During Books Forty-Seventeen
What could he tell her now, now that he was forty and she was no longer seventeen?.He is a failed writer turned diplomat, an anarchist learning the value of discipline. He moves in a world which takes him from the Australian wilderness to the conference rooms of Vienna and Geneva; from the whore-house to warzone he feels the pull of the genetic spiral of his ancestry. At the sharp axis of his mid-life he scans the memorabilia of his feelings in the hope of giving answers..
His story is told with characteristic Moorhouse style - candid, wryly insightful and morbidly comic - and, in this resonant and acclaimed book achieves a new virtuosity.
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| Original Title: | Forty-Seventeen |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | The Age Book of the Year (1988), Australian Literature Society Gold Medal (1989), ALS Gold Medal (1989) |
Rating Epithetical Books Forty-Seventeen
Ratings: 3.56 From 52 Users | 7 ReviewsWrite-Up Epithetical Books Forty-Seventeen
When I was about to turn forty I called my Dad and asked him what I could expect from my forties. He said, reassuringly, your forties will be great, you won't notice any decline until you reach 50. The males in my family tend to stay in pretty good shape. We are active, athletic, and actually enjoy using our muscles to move things. We do though occasionally check out early. My grandfather died from a massive heart attack at the age of 45 while carrying two pails of milk from the barn to the milkFrank Moorhouse can see inside people's heads. He can write about someone and for a second you might think, 'wait, when did I tell Frank I feel like that?' I felt unsatisfied by the overall sketchiness of this bunch of connected and overlapping stories that add up to some kind of maybe a novella? If you like that kind of thing this will crank your dial. But I cannot fault his insight and his humour and his wit and his unsparing incisiveness. PS if you are reading the Edith Campbell Berry Trilogy
7/10
Took a little while to get into, but once the plot kicked in, and Frank Moorhouse began to work his magic with words and sly humour, and the usual feeling that what was a chapter could be a short story its own right, I began to enjoy it so much more. There are lots of typical plot devices, including a conference, troubled relationships and curious sexualities, all of which add to a great little book by a master storyteller.
Had its moments. Quite interesting to see Edith make an appearance.
When I was about to turn forty I called my Dad and asked him what I could expect from my forties. He said, reassuringly, your forties will be great, you won't notice any decline until you reach 50. The males in my family tend to stay in pretty good shape. We are active, athletic, and actually enjoy using our muscles to move things. We do though occasionally check out early. My grandfather died from a massive heart attack at the age of 45 while carrying two pails of milk from the barn to the milk
Sharp and witty. Reminiscent of Joyce Cary.
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