Article: Against the Grain: Beverley Farmer's Writing.(Book Review)

Against the Grain: Beverley Farmer's Writing, by Lyn Jacobs. UQP Studies in Australian Literature. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 2001. Paperback, $30.

Like Lyn Jacobs I like Beverley Farmer's writing, having followed it since Alone and having taught, most recently, The Seal Woman where my twenty-something honours students expressed horror that middle-aged people might continue to engage in ill-advised love affairs to the accompaniment of rather a lot of wine! My students said more than this, but I engage in anecdote to illustrate that Farmer's subversive and original writing arouses heightened responses, which inevitably concerns Jacobs in her ...

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