Jumping at the Moon [electronic resource]

Venero Armanno2021

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Summary

In his assured debut collection of short stories, award-winning author Venero Armanno takes the reader around the world: in Melbourne, a man in a love triangle is excited about his 'personal computer system'; an ex-husband returns reluctantly to Sicily after ten years when his ex-wife falls off a ladder; a couple have an affair in snowy Holland; and a painter recounts a story about East Berlin, before the wall came down, because everyone has a story... First published in 1992, Jumping at the Moon was joint runner-up in the Steele Rudd Award. The collection launched Venero Armanno's literary career, leading to an agent, two novels released in quick succession and, subsequently, international publication. Of his later, critically acclaimed novel The Volcano, in the context of placing him within what might be called the 'post-migrant' generation of writers, Kerryn Goldsworthy wrote in Australian Book Review: 'Like [Fotini] Epanomitis and [Christos] Tsiolkas, Venero ...