As Mr Thiele gets a firm grip on his narrative however, it becomes clear that such assaults upon the natural resources of the English language are only the occasional excesses of an eloquent and highly inventive writer, one moreover who is directed by a positive if imperfectly sustained artisti...
What an impressive opening. The tone, and thus the character, is defiant. There’s the hint of trials that have been confronted. There’s the in-your-face vernacular language. And there’s the sense of something ending and something else beginning. Where is this book going to go, we won...
this more western area is far more sparse, but it is nonetheless home to more Australian literature than you might think. A few years ago, Ireviewed a bookthat focused on literature of cyclone country, Chrystopher J. Spicer’sCyclone country: The language of place and disaster in Australian ...