The Everlasting Secret Family
Angus & Robertson, $3.50 pb, 288 pp
Short Stories
An uneven new collection
by Laurie Clancy •
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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The Everlasting Secret Family
by Frank Moorhouse
Angus & Robertson, $3.50 pb, 288 pp
