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Bottling the forbidden fruit: Marion Halligan's fiction.(Critical essay)

MARION Halligan's writing dwells on the pleasures of daily life, and while readers can readily connect with this celebration of ordinariness, recognising in it patterns of our own existence, such subject matter can also provoke doubt, even distrust. A strain of residual Puritanism in Australian culture means the pursuit of pleasure is still suspect, while continuing doubts as to whether suburbia is an appropriate subject for serious literature can result in writers who explore it being dismissed as bourgeois. Halligan, who insists that 'suburbia is one of the great achievements of the human spirit' (Taste 15), is quite unapologetic about her emphasis on domesticity: 'the ...

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