Moral Hazard (novel)

Moral Hazard is a 2002 novel written by Australian author Kate Jennings.[1]

Moral Hazard
AuthorKate Jennings
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherPicador, Australia
Publication date
2002
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages174 pp
ISBN0-00-714108-4
OCLC48892937
823/.914 21
LC ClassPR9619.3.J44 M67 2002
Preceded bySnake 

It was the winner of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 2003, it was also shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award in the same year.[1]

Awards

Notes

  • Listed in "The New York Times" Book Review's list of Notable Books for 2002.[4]

Reviews

Charles Taylor on the "Salon" website notes: "Sharp, spare, and utterly unsentimental, Kate Jennings' Moral Hazard lays out, in its meticulously composed 175 pages, the definitive treatment of contemporary workplace alienation...Jennings strikes exactly the right balance between satire and compassion, seeing her characters as flawed human beings and yet rendering them with scalpel-like precision...Don't let its brevity fool you. Moral Hazard is a big book in the truest sense of the word."[5]

In the "San Francisco Chronicle" Jane Ciabattari concludes their review: "An extra layer of psychic pain colors scenes set in the shadow of the World Trade Center and in places like Pasqua, at one time a downtown coffee shop that catered to the bankers, traders, analysts and lawyers who worked there. But even without that timeliness, the novel has the power to move. Anyone who's watched a loved one suffer through the stages of dementia, or who's worked in an office run by fear, will recognize this world."[6]

Publication history

After its initial publication in 2002 by Picador, Australia,[7] it was then reprinted as follows:

It was also translated into Dutch and French in 2004.[1]

References

  1. "Moral Hazard by Kate Jennings". Austlit. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
  2. "Adelaide festival Awards for Literature - Previous Winners by Category". State Library of Sa. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
  3. "ALS Gold Medal - Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
  4. Notable Books
  5. "Moral Hazard by Kate Jennings". Salon. 21 June 2002. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
  6. ""Morality and mortality on Wall Street / A harrowing novel about corporate power in the early 1990s"". SFGate. 30 June 2002. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
  7. Moral Hazard (Picador). National Library of Australia. 2002. ISBN 9780330363402. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
  8. "Moral Hazard (Fourth Estate)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
  9. Moral Hazard (Text). National Library of Australia. 23 September 2015. ISBN 9781922182159. Retrieved 28 June 2023.


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