Reading Madame Bovary

Reading Madame Bovary (2010) is a collection of short stories by Australian author Amanda Lohrey.[1] It won the Fiction Prize and Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award at the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards in 2011.[2]

Reading Madame Bovary
First edition
AuthorAmanda Lohrey
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Genreshort story collection
PublisherBlack Inc
Publication date
2010
Media typePrint Paperback
Pages269
ISBN9781863954907
Preceded byVertigo 
Followed byA Short History of Richard Kline 

Contents
  • "Primates"
  • "Reading Madame Bovary"
  • "Ground Zero"
  • "Freedom, Order and the Golden Bead Material"
  • "Perfect"
  • "The Art of Convalesence"
  • "The Existence of Other Men"
  • "John Lennon's Gardener"
  • "Letter to the Romans"

Reviews

Carol Middleton in Overland was impressed by the stories: "Lohrey has a remarkable ability to be lyrical and profound while keeping both feet in the here and now of Australian life. For a ‘literary’ writer, she is refreshingly comfortable with the mundane minutiae of modern life (to-do lists and washing up) and, from there, teases out the themes and issues that lie beneath the surface of contemporary consciousness."[3]

Awards and nominations

References
  1. "Reading Madam Bovary". Austlit. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  2. "2011 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards". ANZ LitLovers. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  3. "Reading Madame Bovary by Amanda Lohrey" by Carol Middleton Overland, 21 January 2011

See also


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.