Great Day | Wendy Perkins
Perkins is a professor of American and English literature and film. In this essay, Perkins traces the characters' achievement of a harmonious balance.
Wendy Perkins
Perkins is a professor of American and English literature and film. In this essay, Perkins traces the characters' achievement of a harmonious balance.
In his article on David Malouf's shorter fiction, Paul Sharrad argues that Malouf's stories explore the mystery inherent in "the moment of contact between different orders of experience," specifically "the mystery of what makes people tick" and "of how some of us find intuitive balance in a world that others force into solid blocks of unfeeling certitude." These mysteries are the main focal points of...
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