08/08/2005: "An Extraordinarily Evil Genius"

There is a film out there at the moment
entitled Three Dollars

It stars the wonderful David Wenham.

I recently saw Getting Square on video
wherein aforesaid Mr Wenham
gives the whirl a lesson in acting.

'Tis a shitty film
but aforesaid Mr Wenham
shines.

SO, upon discovering the book at the local library
I borrowed it.

This is on page 34:

Nothing was more remote to us than the future and, in any event, any discussion of it seemed futile since we knew with certainty that, whatever we chose to study at university and however intensely we studied it, we would still, in the end, be the same middle-class, socially concerned, politically inactive, foreign-film-going, wine and cheese tasters.

The author, Mr Elliot Perlman,
is An Extraordinarily Evil Genius.

Australia's outstanding social novelist Times Literary Supplement
Perlman is a marvellous storyteller The Observer
A sad, angry, disconcertingly funny reflection of the way we live now Times Literary Supplement

Winner of the AGE Book of the Year Award 1998
Winner of the Betty Trask Prize (UK) 1999
Winner of the Fellowship of Australian Writers' Book of the Year Award
Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1998 (what the hell could have beaten this?)

In Fair Use, Mr Perlman, I reproduce below and as a word.doc
heart-wrenching Chapter Nine in its entirety.


PS: Sixty years ago today
at 08:15
Hiroshima was murdered.

* NEVER AGAIN *



lerevdr on Mon 08-Aug-2005 @ 23:01 e.s.t [permalink]
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