The Contemptuary
Published on 1. November 2018
175 pages
978-1-925780-35-2 (ISBN)
Description
Monasteries and gaols: David Foster reflects that during the course of his life the monasteries have emptied while the gaols are doing nicely. Set in Goulburn and its surrounds, where Foster resides, The Contemptuary is a lament for a dying faith, a commentary on prison life and, perhaps unexpectedly from Foster in this, his sixteenth novel, an unputdownable whodunnit.
'Attempt to characterise Foster's writing and eventually one will run out of adjectives. There is simply no one remotely like him in contemporary Australian fiction. He is so far ahead of everyone else that it's not funny.' - Australian Book Review
'Attempt to characterise Foster's writing and eventually one will run out of adjectives. There is simply no one remotely like him in contemporary Australian fiction. He is so far ahead of everyone else that it's not funny.' - Australian Book Review
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Content
- Intro
- Take a Sip
- Collect for purity
- Trevi Fountain here I come
- A who's who of blue
- Alligator pair
- Toothbrushes their uses
- Fall of the House of Paul
- Leave it at that
- Last minute reprieve
- East Coast high
- Hasta la vista
- A rare care-bear
- Never bring the drugs to the money
- How to forget the name of your first pet
- Sonship
- Mercy mercy and again mercy
- A shocking thing entirely
- Thirty thousand piglets
- Too easy
- Old people dead finish whole lot
- Nail him up
- Arc up the PPG
- Sapphire country
- Landscape with portrait
- Portrait with landscape
- Erewhon
- Whithersoever Ithilien
- Ah t'ats grand
- Make it big
- Make it new
- Need some particulars
- Prepare the octopod
- Would metamorphosis work better for Moses?
- Rather a bottle in front of me
- On yer broom
- High sider
- Goostli werk
- Lif contemplatif
- Man on the ground
- Pax
- Watching
- Waiting
- Discretion of stirring
- Proving of spirit
- Have a decision and going to the board
