Imago
Published on 28. March 1996
242 pages
978-1-74219-092-1 (ISBN)
Description
Molly Rose Moon dreamt of worms the night before she married Jimmy Brown in Tooting Bec. The young couple were on their way to Australia. When Molly agrees to go on a journey across hemispheres she''s looking for an escape from home. Once there she meets Marj. Fat Marj. Imago is a story of love and obsession, of seduction and transformations. It''s a story of metamorphosis, taking and eating, larvae and pupae, the risks of stagnation.
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Content
- Book Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- PART ONE
- between two acts
- swimming to safety
- a yellow eye
- October 1960
- Australia Offers diagram 264 pts high
- a new picture
- a question of timing
- doors and gates
- land of the big sky
- a flying V
- sweet-smelling washing
- black gold
- calendar recipes
- sun kiss
- a gift of work
- mountain gazing
- see-through blue eyes
- sculptured bodies
- custard cream puffs and wedding clothes
- bottled oceans
- silent caresses
- a wet green sky
- twirling without confusion
- stuttering postcards
- the notebook
- loquat jelly lips
- PART TWO
- a family portrait
- a frosted glass of milk
- sticky flies
- inedible dreaming
- a life cycle
- invisible mending
- two scarlet gladioli
- a nest of eggs
- red lipstick
- homing pigeons
- ripening skins
- go to the river
- telling signs
- bridal shower parties
- pupal skins
- a warm body suit
- PART THREE
- an Easter moon
- islands of affection
- the missing pearl
- take and eat
- a lesson in flying
- Sweet River
