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Forty-Seventeen
Edited by: Frank Moorhouse
Soft cover. good condition. First edition (1988).
Forty‑Seventeen by Frank Moorhouse is a masterfully nuanced short‑story collection—often considered a composite novel—that follows Sean, a 40-year-old Australian diplomat and failed writer, as he navigates mid‑life dissatisfaction and longing for meaning across diverse landscapes and intimate relationships. Obsessed with a 17‑year‑old muse, Sean drifts from the Australian wilderness to diplomatic settings in Vienna and Geneva, entangled with ex‑wife Robyn, lover Belle, and the aging iconoclast Edith Campbell Berry. Moorhouse’s signature style—candid, wry, episodic humor—is on full display in this fragmentary "house‑of‑mirrors portrait," blending travel, introspection, social observation, and sexual politics. Winner of both The Age Book of the Year Award and the ALS Gold Medal in 1988–89, the book is celebrated for its moral acuity and emotional complexity.
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