Three Novels by Grant P Cunningham
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Overview: Isn’t it funny . . . here I am a writer and I do not like writing about myself. Yet I am told you are curious about me and there it is. I must I must I must . . .I was born in New York City General Hospital on the East River in 1950 to a large Irish Catholic family. Had a chaotic family life built around love and alcoholism. The family moved to Westport, Connecticut around 1955 and ended up at Edgewater Hillside on The Old Mill Pond with the swans and the clams. Industrial grade Catholic guilt and the pursuit of the American Dream. Indeed we were McCall’s Magazine family of the year in 1956 just before the whole act fell apart.
Traveled to Africa to collect live specimens of mammals, reptiles, amphibians and insects for the Steinhardt Aquarium and the California Academy of Sciences. Bill Gaynor and Ted Pappenfuss. Reality in Africa drains one of illusion. There is illness, there is death, there is war, there is this thing we call life and it is not as we would wish but rather as it is. I was 18.
Got back to the States, worked in Mike Malkin’s singles bar on 79th Street, got itchy feet and immigrated to Australia.
Good move. I was 20 years old and Australia is where I have lived my adult life. Worked for the Forestry Commission, Taronga Zoo, started a leather craft business with Errol, lived naked on an island on the Great Barrier Reef with Sue, went back to school to study osteopathy and found an isolated house by the sea where I have remained since 1977. Fancy that.
Time to write and sculpt and, lucky me, have a family. The good woman Donna, three lads (Bracken, Liam and Brean) and the ocean. Got to help a few people, write a few books, make a few images.
A small life.
Works for me anyway.
Genre: Fiction
Innocent Bystander
Fast, fun and furious this humorous modern Australian fiction has had a wide appreciative audience.
The cover is by Micheal Leunig, one of Australia’s living legends, and the reviews are like this ;
"This little gem . . ." Brian Forte, Australian Book Review.
"A novel which is written with so much zest, homour, sharp observation and disjointed wisdom . . . I do recommend this novel for it’s liviliness, insights and intellectual range. ‘ John Hanrahan, The Age
‘Innocent Bystander is enjoyably readable. It is also very funny, highly entertaining, and driven by a versatile intelligence aware of all manner of things." Ian McFarlane, The Canberra Times.
As for me, I’m holding my own, I keep saying, but I’m afraid to look behind me in case it’s catching up. Spanish Jack
Drew was twenty-six as he lay dying on the cold wet rock by the stream in the Blue Mountains. It had rained and misted for the four days he had lain there. Blue smoke wisped up from the embers of the fire Drew had made. He had been very pleased with the fire when he made it: it had been very hard to light a fire in the damp conditions and Drew was injured inside and could not move well. It had been great good fortune to land where he did, though it had broken his body.
Every Man A Thermo Nuclear Device
A New York love story with no redeeming merits other than being both fun and funny.
Leo needs to finish the statue that he has constructed on a vacant lot in New York City but he needs money to do it. He has exactly none and the chiropracters upstairs are trying to kill him. And so is The Black Consul and the red haired Irish woman. His best friend’s girl friend won’t leave him alone and then he’s kicked out of the tv studio.
Leo’s day gets worse from there.
A Ragged Sydney Melody
This is a book of a time in a wild place. It is Australia and if that isn’t bad enough in and of itself, Paul is working at the zoo, Ned is stealing studio time, Brendan can’t kill himself properly, The Doctor has disappeared into his isolation tank and Kez is so beautiful that even the pavement sighs as she passes by.
Fast, funny and furious this novel captures the essence of a strange and vibrant time.
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