Peter Goldsworthy is a prize-winning and best-selling novelist, short story writer, poet and librettist. His best-known novels are Maestro, Honk If You Are Jesus and Three Dog Night. Category: Literature & literary studies. Table Of Contents: True Blue? Includes work by: -Tim Winton -Michael Leunig. This lively collection from across the continent reminds us of our varied heritage, highlights our common connections, and sometimes discerns what Peter Goldsworthy calls 'a national temperament.' It shows us we have much of which to be proud. Draws together novelists, journalists, poets, cultural icons,. In addition, his celebrated short story The Kiss was recently released as Penguin ebook Special. Link to the website for Ashlee page's multi-award winning screen adaptation here: thekiss.net.au April 06, 2013 / Daniel Goldsworthy/ Comment release, ebook.
Click on the Google Preview image above to read some pages of this book! Against the backdrop of Darwin, that small, tropical hothouse of a port, half-outback, half-oriental, lying at the tip of northern Australia, a young and newly arrived southerner encounters the 'maestro', a Viennese refugee with a shadowed past.
The occasion is a piano lesson, the first of many. About the Author Peter Goldsworthy grew up in various Australian country towns finishing his schooling in Darwin in the Northern Territory. After graduating in medicine from the University of Adelaide in 1974 he worked for several years in alcohol and drug rehabilitation, but since then has divided his working time between general practice and writing. 'I enjoyed Maestro enormously. Besides its thoughtfulness and bright sensuality, it has a playful quality, a love of jest, which appealed to me very much.' Helen Garner, SYDNEY REVIEW On release, MAESTRO was hailed 'a splendid achievement, a wise, deeply felt novel that continues to haunt well after one has finished it.
It is distinguished by subtlety, by economy and by a quality often lacking in even the best of recent novels - an unerring quality of tone' by Andrew Riemer in the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. It has sold over 200,000 copies in Australia and was voted by members of the Australian Society of Authors as one of the Top 40 Australian Books of All Time. 'The necessary elusiveness of perfection, the unplumbed ocean beneath articulateness, the ambivalence of beauty - these are the revolving concerns of Peter Goldsworthy, and handled not just with irony, but with an effervescent, compassionate wit.
He can't help being funny, but he's wise too. Download Free Soniccouture Konkrete 3 Rar Software. ' - AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW.