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Bête noire of the self

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April 1990, no. 119

The House in the Rainforest by Sophie Masson

UQP, 238pp, $12.95pb

Bête noire of the self

by
April 1990, no. 119

Sophie Masson’s first novel deals with the probing of emotional wounds. It alternates from present to past as a journalist goes back to her village to write a story on a Family Court tragedy about people with whom her past is inexorably entangled. Set in northern New South Wales and Sydney, it examines the slow death of the rainforest areas and their rebirth as alternative lifestyle habitats for people fleeing the city.

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