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The After Life: A Memoir by Kathleen StewartThere’s no doubt in my mind that this memoir is excellent. The prose is literary with a reflective tone, and I enjoyed the fact that this book is not structured with a blow-by-blow commentary of the author’s life.Published 1 May, 2008 
The After Life: A Memoir (Kathleen Stewart, Vintage, $34.95, tpb, ISBN 9781741667271, May) **** There’s no doubt in my mind that this memoir is excellent. The prose is literary with a reflective tone, and I enjoyed the fact that this book is not structured with a blow-by-blow commentary of the author’s life. Instead Kathleen Stewart, an acclaimed writer of novels, short stories and poems, focuses on one year: 1976. She invites readers to accompany her as she herself revisits and reflects upon this tumultuous year in which a number of events (mostly awful) played out: her relationship with a guy she refers to as Martin, her brutal rape, her mother’s desertion, her own suicide attempt and subsequent period in a psychiatric hospital. Oh, but that’s not all. Heck no. The year is rounded off with the suicide of her father, an autocratic man whom I found quite detestable. Stewart’s mother is presented as a remarkable yet flawed woman—nothing seems to please her. By the end of the book I didn’t like her. Neither did the doctor in the psychiatric hospital! The two women had such a disturbing, tension-filled relationship. This book is very bleak. Very good, but very bleak. Julia Jackson is a freelancer reviewer and works at Readings in Carlton This review from Australian Bookseller & Publisher magazine is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker More from Non-Fiction Book Reviews
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Occy by Mark Occhilupo & Tim Baker
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Ironic, playful, iconoclastic and provocative, historian Manning Clark left an indelible mark on this country, our thinking, how we view ourselves and our past.1 October, 2008
Just Four Ingredients by Australian women's weekly
Just Four Ingredients is the Australian Women’s Weekly’s offering on the back of the phenomenally successful 4 Ingredients.1 October, 2008 
The typical fairytale of marrying a prince comes to life in this biography of an Australian girl who leaves her family and sheltered life in Melbourne to marry a Muslim ruler in a small area in India1 October, 2008 
Author Mike McColl-Jones worked alongside Graham Kennedy for almost 20 years, churning out jokes and scripts for the popular television show, In Melbourne Tonight.1 October, 2008 
John Carroll writes books that are generally hard to categorise.1 October, 2008 |
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