6 Novels by Frank Moorhouse
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Overview: Moorhouse is perhaps best known for winning the 2001 Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel, Dark Palace; which together with Grand Days and Cold Light, the "Edith Trilogy" is a fictional account of the League of Nations, which trace the strange, convoluted life of a young woman who enters the world of diplomacy in the 1920s through to her involvement in the newly formed International Atomic Energy Agency after World War II.
Genre: General Fiction/Classics
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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Our Hero explores contemporary protocols – of family, food and art – looks at the tragic evanescence of technology and investigates meal reform and the science of life.
THE CLUB. I also thought I moved with what was called the Fast Crowd but I have begun to face up to the slowing of the Fast Crowd. My friends now not only move with a more leisurely pace, I observe, but with an undignified lack of urgency, are slower to rise from their chairs, and also, I have noticed, they have begun to procreate. The Late Family had arrived in my life. For some of my friends the Late Family had replaced the Late Show.
THE MOVIE This is a story about how the flow of life is made into stories, how stories become films, how the making of stories and films itself becomes stories, and how stories become the flow of life.
THE CABARET VOLTAIRE It occurs to me that the telephone answering machine is something of a wall, albeit a friendly wall. Robert Frost’s neighbour says that good fences make good neighbours. Good greetings on a telephone answering machine make good telephone neighbours. But as Frost says, ‘Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That wants it down.’ I suppose some people do not like the wall to joke. There will always be those types. The telephone answering machine could be seen as the dog Cerberus barking at the gates of Hades. The dog Cerberus didn’t stop people coming into Hades – he stopped people going out. The telephone answering machine is Cerberus trying to prevent the people who come down the dark tunnel of the telephone from getting away. It holds them by their voice, seizes them by their throat.
Tales Of Mystery And Romance
Travel, sex, death and love – a most surprising collection of stories. ‘I love airports. I love the opera of airports …Families with high-gloss airport emotion, a linkage of smiles, tears and touching. A moratorium on malice, air-conditioned goodwill. When the airport sanctuary is left, the automatic doors open into the sweaty heat and blown litter, and they also re-open the wounds of the family and the dust blows into the lacerations.’ In an odyssey which moves across a world stage, Tales of Mystery and Romance touches high comedy and low farce – the non-event of the Jack Kerouac Wake, the dispute over the exact form of secular penetration achieved by Milton, an argument with an ex-wife over ‘motel sex’ – and much tender and perceptive observation. You will come away from this book at least knowing something about belly dancers, the intricacies of homosexual sex, and even life after death.
The Americans, Baby
‘The Americans, Baby’ is a contemporary classic of sexual and social mores in Australia. Set mainly within the Sydney alternative subculture of the 1960’s, it explores the uncertainties and ambiguities of the Americanisation of Australia. Meet Becker, a lonely American Coca-Cola executive; Paul Johnson, who graduated AB from New York City College; Terri, unstable as jazz; and the girl who met Simone de Beauvoir in Paris.
The Electrical Experience: A Discontinuous Narrative
T. George McDowell believes in getting the job done.
‘I do not care for words in top hats. I believe in shirt-sleeve words. I believe in getting the job done. We’re like that on the coast.’
T. George McDowell, a manufacturer of soft drinks on the south coast of New South Wales, prides himself on extolling the virtues of progress. He is a Rotarian and exponent of wireless, refrigeration and electricity. He is a Realist and a Rationalist – a ‘fair man but hard as nails’ according to his staff – but trouble in the shape of his youngest daughter, Terri, tests his values and beliefs, and he finds that his own sexual longings begin to intrude in his dreams.
First published in 1974, The Electrical Experience is an at times humorous examination of the Australian soul, and won the National Book Council Award for Fiction.
The Inspector-General of Misconception: The Ultimate Compendium to Sorting Things Out
From eating oysters to making conversation; from bemoaning the lost art of speech-making to celebrating our national holidays, Frank Moorhouse—as the Inspector-General—applies his fastidious eye to the habits and ways of our society, and advises on all manner of things.
-How does one dine alone at Christmas without attracting the pity of the world? Ask the Inspector-General of Misconception, who devotes a dispatch to the question of Handling Christmas Alone. Unless the restaurant is particularly sensitive and removes it, you will find at your place a Christmas cracker. Do not under any circumstances pull it yourself. Don’t. And should one wash hands before urinating or after? And as for sex—before or after?
-What about civility and Hitler? Should one accept an invitation to lunch with him in 1939? Does one accept and argue calmly and rationally for a change of his policies? And what if the invitation arrives in 1942?
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