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Bleak Rooms by Peter Goldsworthy

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May 1988, no. 100

Bleak Rooms by Peter Goldsworthy

Wakefield Press, 137 pp, $12.95 pb

Bleak Rooms by Peter Goldsworthy

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May 1988, no. 100

Peter Goldsworthy uses the short story to examine and question elements of the kind of life he leads. There is an attractive lack of pretence in his kind of story; Goldsworthy sketches social situations clearly and succinctly so that he can move on to probe the weaknesses in his characters’ otherwise complacent lives. As the back cover tells us, and the stories reveal, Goldsworthy is a medical practitioner in Adelaide and his fiction is in a tradition which begins with social experience and reflection on it.

Susan Lever reviews 'Bleak Rooms' by Peter Goldsworthy

Bleak Rooms

by Peter Goldsworthy

Wakefield Press, 137 pp, $12.95 pb

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