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Frank Moorhouse by Catharine LumbyThe late Frank Moorhouse’s output was both prolific and varied: beloved novels, short stories and essays; a memoir named for his favourite drink, Martini; erotica; screenplays; and witty commentary on Australian society and culture – all of which earned him many fans, among them journalist and academic Catharine Lumby.
Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Dutch pilot Mattjis plans to marry Anna van Hoorns, who is caught between the disparate homes of her parents – Holland, Indonesia and China. The van Hoorns’ housekeeper Diah, meanwhile, is torn between loyalty to her employer and feeding information to her freedom-fighter brother. This complex knot of loyalties tightens as characters struggle with compromises on family, security, love and belonging, caught between two sides of one war: colonise or be colonised, win or lose.
Each chapter begins with a novel’s cover and logline, before we meet the author reckoning with their sudden acclaim. Among them: a writer whose book is comprised only of texts; a novelist who tooktoo much from real life; and a queer feminist whose graphic historical fiction is simply titled “Her Cunt”. Woven through is Tasha’s desperately search for her friend Gideon Bannerman, as the judges debate the winner – and their decision reaches its deadline.
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