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A Fixed Place

Long and Short of Story

By: Kathleen Mary Fallon

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Paperback | 30 August 2019

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What was it like, living through the social, cultural and political upheaval of the last fifty years of the twentieth century in this Lucky Country? With life flying forward into the future, what could be held onto, and what self (that place which is never fixed) could fix and hold the experience of those years? In A Fixed Place: the long and short of story, we find moments that were held – moments of stasis, of hard-won clarity, of sexuality, joy, confusion, compassion. Fallon has collected writings published across a span from the 1980’s in magazines and ephemeral publications to make a picture of the act of creation through writing. The collection includes pieces that span and scan more than half a lifetime: from the story a child tells herself as she struggles to come to terms with the weirdness of her extended family (A Fixed Place), to the story of a young teenager trying to comprehend tales told around the kitchen table, tales that defy interpretation (The Origins and History of Aquarelle Taffeta), to a story of violence and murder (bringing yourself to do it).

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