An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life

Awards:   Long-listed for Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2023 (Australia) Short-listed for Best Designed Literary Fiction Cover 2023 (Australia) Short-listed for Best Fiction 2023 (Australia)
Author:   Paul Dalla Rosa
Publisher:   Allen & Unwin
ISBN:  

9781761066191


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   31 May 2022
Format:   Paperback
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Awards

  • Long-listed for Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2023 (Australia)
  • Short-listed for Best Designed Literary Fiction Cover 2023 (Australia)
  • Short-listed for Best Fiction 2023 (Australia)

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'Exciting . . . thrilling, exhilarating' - Christos Tsiolkas, author of Seven and a Half 'Hilarious, brutal, warm and tender' - Abigail Ulman, author of Hot Little Hands 'A knockout.' - Chelsea Hodson, author of Tonight I'm Someone Else 'How can these stories be so funny, dazzling, deep and dark?' - Ronnie Scott, author of The Adversary Whether working in food service or in high-end retail, lit by a laptop in a sex chat or by the camera of an acclaimed film director, sharing a dangerous apartment in the city, a rooming house in China or a vacation rental in Mallorca, the protagonists of the ten stories comprising Paul Dalla Rosa's debut collection, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life, navigate the spaces between aspiration and delusion, ambition and aimlessness, the curated profile and the unreliable body. By turns unsparing and tender, Dalla Rosa explores our lives in late-stage capitalism, where globalisation and its false promises of connectivity and equity leave us all further alienated and disenfranchised. His stories are small masterpieces of regret, futility and tenderness, dripping with acuity, irony and wit. Like his acclaimed contemporary Ottessa Moshfegh and the legendary Lucia Berlin, Dalla Rosa is a masterful observer and unflinching eviscerator of our ugly, beautiful attempts at finding meaning in an ugly, beautiful world.

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Author:   Paul Dalla Rosa
Publisher:   Allen & Unwin
Imprint:   Allen & Unwin
Weight:   0.298kg
ISBN:  

9781761066191


ISBN 10:   1761066196
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   31 May 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Paul Dalla Rosa is a writer based in Melbourne, Australia. His stories have appeared in Granta, The Paris Review, McSweeney's, Meanjin and New York Tyrant. In 2019, his story 'Comme' was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award. He is currently undertaking his PhD at RMIT University, studying 'the real' within contemporary fiction. An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life is his debut collection.

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