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  • Published: 1 March 2013
  • ISBN: 9780857980588
  • Imprint: Random House Australia
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 60

The Story of the Knife



All things pass. Sex, love, relationships or is that just folk fatalism?

All things pass. Sex, love, relationships or is that just folk fatalism?

'Twenty-year-olds were too much.' Roger had to remind himself again of the different roles a man had to play - mentor, priest, psychiatrist - when one got involved with a younger woman.

From the collection of interlinked stories Futility and Other Animals, The Story of the Knife, in Frank Moorhouse's inimitable way, explores how much we ourselves believe what we say and what we do.

With a bonus free chapter from Dark Palace, Moorhouse's Miles Franklin Award-winning novel.

  • Published: 1 March 2013
  • ISBN: 9780857980588
  • Imprint: Random House Australia
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 60

About the author

Frank Moorhouse

Frank Moorhouse was born in the coastal town of Nowra, NSW. He worked as an editor of small-town newspapers and as an administrator and in 1970s became a full-time writer. He won national prizes for his fiction, non-fiction, and essays. He was best known for the highly acclaimed Edith trilogy, Grand Days, Dark Palace, and Cold Light, novels which follow the career of an Australian woman in the League of Nations in the 1920s and 1930s through to the International Atomic Energy Agency in the 1970s as she struggled to become a diplomat. His last book The Drover’s Wifea reading adventure published in October 2017, brings together works inspired by Henry Lawson’s story and examines the attachment Australia has to the story and to Russell Drysdale’s painting of the same name. Frank was awarded a number of fellowships including writer in residence at King’s College Cambridge, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. His work has been translated into several languages. He was made a member of the Order of Australia for services to literature in 1985 and was made a Doctor of the University by Griffith University in 1997 and a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) by the University of Sydney, 2015. Frank Moorhouse died, in Sydney, on 26 June 2022.

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