Books by Alex Miller
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review 1: This is a wonderful book by Alex Miller, about differences between city and country, the ties of friendship and the ability of love to endure. The story is told by Bobby Blue, who is a bushman of the old school, even though he is only 20. Bobby is on his own and takes a job wor...
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review 1: This novel is an outstanding example of the power of fiction to explore the possible inner lives of real people. Here, the imagined characters of Autumn and Arthur Laing and Pat Donlon (among others) reflect on real people, art patrons Sunday and John Reid (the Heide Circle) and ...
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review 1: I found this book ok it didn't reach any great heights nor did it plummet to any depths. In some ways that is exactly the problem, he creates the possibility of great drama and then kills it off with a central character that is too wet for words .a friend of mine once said they a...
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review 1: I've struggled with other Alex Miller books but I loved this one and found it a page turner. His portrayal of Autumn as completely self centred and selfish was mesmerising and rang true (I know someone like her, whether she was in any way like Sunday Reed or not). The novel was a...
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review 1: This is a sweet, compelling story but there were two underlying questions that particularly captured my imagination. The first involved grappling with discontent, and the question of whether our unique natures predispose us to contentment or discontent, or whether we create or ev...