My Eyes Are Not Blue
Minerva Press. £8,99
Fiction
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by Marian Eldridge •
My Eyes Are Not Blue
Patrick Hanrahan
Minerva Press. £8,99
This first novel by Patrick Hanrahan is set in Melbourne. The theme looks promising: what happens when you decide to give up sex as amusement. Vaughan Carton is about thirty, he has a job and a house, and all these women – Karen, Pilar, Marie, Ursula – just won’t let him alone, even when Vaughan has to slap one of them round a bit. (‘Far too hard’, the narrator decides.)
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