Accessibility Tools

  • Content scaling 100%
  • Font size 100%
  • Line height 100%
  • Letter spacing 100%

The List of All Answers: Collected stories by Peter Goldsworthy

by
May 2004, no. 261

The List of All Answers: Collected stories by Peter Goldsworthy

Viking, $29.95 pb, 339 pp

The List of All Answers: Collected stories by Peter Goldsworthy

by
May 2004, no. 261

Susan Sontag has identified in contemporary fiction what she calls an ‘impatient, ardent and elliptical’ drive. These are features, above all, of the well-wrought story, and they are also adjectives that well describe its inherent paradox: the story is contained but somehow urgent, intensified but working in a system of concision, suggestive but employing referential exorbitance. Four pages might betoken an entire world.

Gail Jones reviews 'The List of All Answers: Collected stories' by Peter Goldsworthy

The List of All Answers: Collected stories

by Peter Goldsworthy

Viking, $29.95 pb, 339 pp

You May Also Like

Leave a comment

If you are an ABR subscriber, you will need to sign in to post a comment.

If you have forgotten your sign in details, or if you receive an error message when trying to submit your comment, please email your comment (and the name of the article to which it relates) to ABR Comments. We will review your comment and, subject to approval, we will post it under your name.

Please note that all comments must be approved by ABR and comply with our Terms & Conditions.