Reading Madame Bovary
Book by Amanda Lohrey
9781863954907
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
- 2011 winner Queensland Premier's Literary Awards – Best Fiction Book
- 2011 winner Queensland Premier's Literary Awards – Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award
References
See also
- 2010 in Australian literature
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