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Short Stories

An uneven new collection

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June 1980, no. 21

The Everlasting Secret Family by Frank Moorhouse

Angus & Robertson, $3.50 pb, 288 pp

Short Stories

An uneven new collection

by •
June 1980, no. 21

This sixth work of fiction by Frank Moorhouse consists of four groups of related stories. The first and by far the best group, ‘Pacific City’, contains six stories centred around the figure of Irving Bow, proprietor of a cinema located near an unbuilt town named Pacific City during the late nineteen-twenties (not the nineteen-thirties as the back cover claims).

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Laurie Clancy (1942–2010) was a leading Australian critic, fiction-writer, and teacher. His novel A Collapsible Man (1975) was a joint winner of the National Book Council Award for Fiction while Perfect Love won the FAW/ANA Literary Award in 1984. He published book-length studies of Christina Stead, Xavier Herbert, and Vladimir Nabokov as well as A Reader's Guide to Australian Fiction (1992). In 1980, he joined ABR as associate editor.

Laurie Clancy reviews 'The Everlasting Secret Family' by Frank Moorhouse

The Everlasting Secret Family

by Frank Moorhouse

Angus & Robertson, $3.50 pb, 288 pp

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