The Night We Ate the Sparrow [electronic resource] : A memoir and fourteen stories
Morris Lurie2021
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Acclaimed short story writer Morris Lurie lures the reader into a world where a
world famous engineer is mourned by his four ex-wives who meet once a month
(along the one who would have been number five) while his son, the narrator,
travels the globe trying to work out how not to run from love; an art critic's
(good) advice takes years to digest; a middle-aged man recalls being a young
Adonis and how it worked for him as a door-to-door salesman; a father is always
given the same present; while in the title story, a twenty-six-year-old in
swinging London with an acrylic fake fur overcoat finds himself in hospital and
very hungry...
'Lurie is sentimental and cynical at once. He knows it, he exploits the paradox,
and finally it's his personality, charming, sensitive, a bit of a bastard, that
makes them [the stories] work, through the medium of his prose with its warm
poetic vernacular rhythms, persuading us just to listen ...' - Marion Halligan,
The Canberra Times
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Main title:
Author:
Morris Lurie, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Ligature Pty Limited, 2021
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Audience:
General/Trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781922749321
Language:
English
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BRN:
446034
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |