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Louise
Davenport’s
short fiction is spare in the classic modernist manner.
Strong underlying emotion is controlled, oblique or symbolic. The
‘claw’ in the title
sequence is a traditional
image that is strikingly
re-invented through the agency of a moving statue, itself an image
re-energised from the canon.
In many ways her first collection is a fractured mirror, presenting key images recurrently. Or it can be read as a mosaic autobiography, the author’s facing the childhood horror of her mother’s suicide and dealing with its emotional ramifications in her adult life. Mother’s Claw is both cool and healing.
ISBN 1 876044 16 0
Published 2001
111 pgs
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In many ways her first collection is a fractured mirror, presenting key images recurrently. Or it can be read as a mosaic autobiography, the author’s facing the childhood horror of her mother’s suicide and dealing with its emotional ramifications in her adult life. Mother’s Claw is both cool and healing.
ISBN 1 876044 16 0
Published 2001
111 pgs
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My Mother’s Claw
This Story has no Denouement
The Characters of Nineteenth Century Fiction
My Seated Lady
Bounded by Main Roads
The Arches
The Siamese Cat
One Thousand Dollars
Christmas
Koroit Convent
Dead Dog Ditch
Guildford Lane
They Came with Icicles in their Hair
The Hollow Axis
Uncle David
John Cain's Third Term
The Other Shoulder
The Dream
My Emotion
The Red Rattler
Melbourne on a Sunday Morning
Flinders Street
The Icon
Under the Sheoaks
The Centre of a Room
Fitzroy
The Cyclone
Total Out
The Poppies
The Growth of the Shoulder
The Bare Room
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Like a fracturing
mirror, Davenport’s
short fiction presents key images recurrently. Beginning with childhood
memories of the horror of her mother’s death, Davenport moves
gently
between stoires of her life. These stories are all coloured by the claw
- the image of her mother that haunts her life.
Moving roughly along a timeline, her scattered images weave a surprisingly clear story.
Davenport’s story is ghostly and quiet, fragments of dreams and memories entangle to produce an engaging fiction.
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Moving roughly along a timeline, her scattered images weave a surprisingly clear story.
To go
to the heart of the truth is too much pain. I enter from an
angle and light up the edges of my object with pastel relief.
Davenport’s story is ghostly and quiet, fragments of dreams and memories entangle to produce an engaging fiction.
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