Reading Madame Bovary

Book by Amanda Lohrey

9781863954907Preceded byVertigo Followed byA Short History of Richard Kline 

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]

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

  • 2010 in Australian literature


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