Georgia Blain (1964–2016)
Autor(a) de Between a Wolf and a Dog
About the Author
Georgia Blain was born on December 12, 1964 in Australia. Before becoming a full-time author, she worked as a copyright lawyer and a journalist. She wrote adult and young adult novels including Closed for Winter, Candelo, The Blind Eye, Names for Nothingness, Darkwater, Too Close to Home, Snake in mostrar mais the Grass, Strange Times, and Special. Between a Wolf and a Dog won the 2016 Queensland Literary Award in the fiction category. She wrote a memoir entitled Births Deaths Marriages: True Tales and a short story collection entitled The Secret Lives of Men. She was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor in 2015. She died on December 9, 2016 at the age of 51. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Georgia Blain
We All Lived in Bondi Then 2 cópias
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Blain, Georgia Frances Elise
- Data de nascimento
- 1964-12-12
- Data de falecimento
- 2016-12-09
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Australia
- Local de nascimento
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Local de falecimento
- Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia
- Causa da morte
- Brain cancer
- Locais de residência
- Grange Beach, South Australia, Australia
Tuscany, Italy - Educação
- Western Sydney University (PhD - Creative Writing)
University of Sydney (LLB)
University of Adelaide (BA) - Ocupação
- novelist
short-story writer
copyright lawyer
journalist
essayist
poet - Relacionamentos
- Deveson, Anne (mother)
Blain, Ellis (father) - Agente
- Curtis Brown Australia P/L
Membros
Resenhas
Prêmios
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 16
- Also by
- 7
- Membros
- 540
- Popularidade
- #46,139
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 43
- ISBNs
- 55
These stories traverse preoccupations that are familiar to readers of Blain's fiction. Difficult siblings with incomprehensible personalities; ambiguous mother-daughter relationships; grief and loss; resentment and loyalty; disappointment with the self and others; and the contemporary scourges of disconnection, drug addiction, intemperate drinking and Alzheimer's Disease.
The collection of nine stories comprises:
'Australia Square' is a heart-rending story. Parents on the verge of splitting up hire a French au pair who brings the children, a girl and a baby boy in a pram, to the father's work. She has a dental appointment so the children are to have lunch with the father. But on the forty-seventh floor, a brief, innocent distraction sends the lift away — with the pram still in it. The reverberations from this event spiral down through the years. Relationships sever in the aftermath as the mystery of the child's disappearance haunts them.
More and more of us are experiencing the loss of a loved one to dementia or Alzheimer's Disease, and in 'Dear Professor Brewster' the narrator's halting progress towards having her mother diagnosed is all too familiar. Something seems wrong long before the dots are joined, and then there are the decisions about care options, made with or without the cooperation of the afflicted one. And the thing is, life is going on in other ways at the same time. It's incredibly stressful, and then there's the anxiety about the possible genetic inheritance. Blain captures this perfectly in 'Dear Professor Brewster' but it's difficult to read...
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