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A peripatetic life

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September 2009, no. 314

Rainforest Narratives: The Work of Janette Turner Hospital by David Callahan

University of Queensland Press, $39.95 pb, 370 pp

A peripatetic life

by
September 2009, no. 314

Janette Turner Hospital is an Australian-born novelist with an international reputation, though Australian readers often have reservations about her work. She has written some brilliant short stories, but her novels can strain for effect, with insistent intellectual allusions and postmodern shifts of fictional status. Perhaps, though, this is a typical Australian response to an expatriate writer whose work is not immediately accessible. Australian critics have not been as willing to praise Hospital as some North American readers, including Joyce Carol Oates, who, on the cover of Rainforest Narratives, describes Hospital as ‘a writer of consummate craft and visionary insight’.

Rainforest Narratives: The Work of Janette Turner Hospital

Rainforest Narratives: The Work of Janette Turner Hospital

by David Callahan

University of Queensland Press, $39.95 pb, 370 pp

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