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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.

Last
updated 11 September 2000
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