The poet William Blake wrote, "To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in your hand, and eternity in an hour." His lines are an apt epigraph to Lou Mason's novel, The Orchid: Second Story of the Botherhopping. While the novel follows the time-traveling and magical adventures of its characters, The Orchid seems to have a special alchemy of its own. Mason's writing bends time and space, finding the quiet, meaningful moments in even the chaos of transformation. Not just a fantasy, or even mystical novel, The Orchid delicately explores the fine threads that...
The poet William Blake wrote, "To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in your hand, and eternity in an hour."...
..".Filled with riotous conversations and ingenious one-liners, Mason does a dazzling job of entertaining through finely tuned dialogue..." First in a wildly original series, The Botherhopping by Lou Mason is absurdist fiction at its finest. More than mere amusement, Mason's fantastically orchestrated and perfectly timed literary leanings are rich, robust, and finely tuned-and her big picture humanist philosophies offer a breath of fresh air. With a penchant for the eccentric, the author uses primary source benchmarks to weave this first tale of the Botherhopping. There are frenetic moments...
..".Filled with riotous conversations and ingenious one-liners, Mason does a dazzling job of entertaining through finely tuned dialogue..." First in a...
Is the cultivation of an artist a subjective experience? Should emerging artists be separated from society, or immersed in it? These questions are explored in Soupdoll, an intriguing and dramatic work of fiction that features a child who was born to be a one-of-a-kind artist. However, such an idiosyncratic way of thinking was not welcomed at the time. Although metaphoric, the story details a period in Australian aesthetic history when, fashioned by its convict roots, the arts had turned into a masculine society wary of anything considered intellectual, highbrow, or "sissy." In contrast, the...
Is the cultivation of an artist a subjective experience? Should emerging artists be separated from society, or immersed in it? These questions are exp...
Praise for "Lunes" ..".marvelous characters, wide ranges of mood and an irresistible sense of humour...touched with magic..." -Lewis Harding "Touching and beguiling..." - Miles Pinner
Praise for "Lunes" ..".marvelous characters, wide ranges of mood and an irresistible sense of humour...touched with magic..." -Lewis Harding "Touching...