Hospital, Janette Turner
Hospital, Janette Turner ( 1942 – ),novelist and short story writer, born in Melbourne, Australia, who studied at the University of Queensland and at Queen's University, Canada. She has taught in universities in Australia, Canada, the USA, and the UK. Her novels include The Ivory Swing ( 1982 ), The Tiger in the Tigerpit ( 1983 ), Borderline ( 1985 ), Charades ( 1988 ), The Last Magician ( 1992 ), Oyster ( 1996 ), and Due Preparations for the Plague ( 2003 ), which interweaves a plot of post 9/11 terrorism with references to the Black Death. Her allusive, lyrical prose and intricate narratives have been much admired. The theme of dislocation—both cultural and emotional—is recurrent in her work, as is the damage wrought by secrecy, and the ways in which the past influences and can discolour the present. She elaborates these themes in her collections of short stories,...
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