Ian Skinner
Grumpy Old Journo
May 15, 2009
It’s hard to believe it’s been 34 years since Anne Summers published her Damned Whores and God’s Police. The years have rushed by, but how far have we progressed?
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by Stephen Scheding The Age Following the death of her mother, Anne Summers is bequaethed a painting that depicts her parent, aged 10, in 1933, holding a book titled Alice and the White Rabbit. And, like Alice who follows the White Rabbit down a hole, Summers begins to follow clues that the painting offers, [...]
Excerpt: “The Lost Mother is an absolute treasure of a book.” Solace from a familiar portraitAngela Bennie In its construction, its mosaic-like structures, its criss-crossing paths of cause and effect, what The Lost Mother ultimately reveals, thanks to Summers’s skill, is that a painting — or a book, or any work of art — is not just an accumulation or manipulation of paints or pencil or words on a page. I have just learned from my publisher that my first book is now officially out of print and will not be republished. The book has had an amazing life – almost 33 years of being continuously in print – and I want to celebrate this. But of course I am sad that it has now [...] |
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