Sophie Frazer Sophie Frazer i(14450992 works by)
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1 The Hunter and Other Stories of Men' by David Cohen Sophie Frazer , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 405 2018; (p. 21)

'In David Cohen’s collection of wry and quirky stories, he follows the lives of various men in their rituals of ordinariness – their failures, foibles, and fetishes – with a razor-like eye observing the disenchantments of modernity.'  (Introduction)

1 Sophie Frazer Reviews 'The Art of Persuasion' by Susan Midalia Sophie Frazer , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 404 2018; (p. 36)

''Longing,’ thinks Hazel West, the twenty-five-year-old protagonist of Susan Midalia’s first novel, ‘I could begin a story with longing.’ This is a book about various kinds of longing: the desire for intimacy, for human understanding, for self-possession and self-forgetting. Most of all, though, this is a book about language, about linguistic ‘shades of meaning’. Hazel is preoccupied with the fit of things with their referents. Ironically, she stumbles over her word choices in almost every encounter. ‘Words ha[ve] important shades of meaning,’ she says, ‘which [is] why you should never use a thesaurus.’'  (Introduction)

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