'In this story it's possible to make a beginning and end; it should be understood, though, the lines are arbitrary...' So says Gunnar Abt at the Alexanderplatz police headquarters after the murder of a young communist in 1934. His response raises one of history's big questions: how do we make sense of the actions of ordinary people under a regime whose unspeakable deeds ensured that there were no longer any ordinary people? Lakeland is a hybrid novel, a ctional recreation told in prose and verse of the lives of multiple characters in one family. Inspired by real events, the story...
'In this story it's possible to make a beginning and end; it should be understood, though, the lines are arbitrary...' So says Gunnar Abt at the Al...
In his interpretation of Antigone, Seamus Heaney says, ‘Nobody can be sure they are always right.’ Maureen O’Shaughnessy’s The Truth about A further attends to this idea through various readings of the myth as portrayed by Sophocles, Brecht, Ted Hughes, Anne Carson and, most particularly, Euripides. Set in contemporary Sydney, among a fictional underworld family, The Truth about A not only considers the issue of whether to obey the law or your conscience but delves into the nature of the creative impulse and the eternal bonds and chasms...
In his interpretation of Antigone, Seamus Heaney says, ‘Nobody can be sure they are always right.’ Maureen O’Shaughnessy...
