Author | Amanda Lohrey |
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Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Genre | short story collection |
Publisher | Black Inc |
Publication date | 2010 |
Media type | Print Paperback |
Pages | 269 |
ISBN | 9781863954907 |
Preceded by | Vertigo |
Followed by | A Short History of Richard Kline |
Reading Madame Bovary (2010) is a collection of short stories by Australian author Amanda Lohrey.[1] It won the Fiction Prize and Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award at the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards in 2011.[2]
Carol Middleton in Overland was impressed by the stories: "Lohrey has a remarkable ability to be lyrical and profound while keeping both feet in the here and now of Australian life. For a ‘literary’ writer, she is refreshingly comfortable with the mundane minutiae of modern life (to-do lists and washing up) and, from there, teases out the themes and issues that lie beneath the surface of contemporary consciousness."[3]