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Out of the Picture

Marion Halligan

Out of the Picture is a collection of short stories and essays inspired by photographs from the National Library of Australia's Pictorial Collection.

Marion Halligan, one of Australia's foremost writers, chose the images and lent them these stories - some invented, some found. I believe that our lives have the potential for a great many stories ... and even though most of us will forever live on the edge of them there is nothing to prevent us stepping in our imaginations inside these alternative narratives and trying them out, for a while.

In searching out these 'alternative narratives' Halligan has looked not just to the photographs themselves but to what is happening out of the picture, round the corner, in the past or in people's heads.

The invented stories offer many themes - the intensity of love reborn, the persistence and quiet passion which memory holds, new beginnings, tantalising prospects - while the stories found present us with reminiscences of Halligan's childhood in Newcastle, NSW; imaginative reflections on Australia's past and present, as well as glimpses into its future, both real and imagined.

Reviews:

Halligan lets her fancy fly, image and words illuminating the creative process.

Age, 29 March 1997

Information on author:

Marion Halligan lives in Canberra and, as well as publishing her novels and short stories, has written on food and food culture in her books Eat My Words (1990) and Cockles of the Heart (1996). She has won several major literary prizes, including the Steele Rudd Award and the Age Book of the Year Award.

ISBN 0 642 10670 3
1996, pb, B5, 132 pp, b&w illus.

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Last updated 11 September 2000