Natasha Beaumont Natasha Beaumont i(28383412 works by)
Born: Established: Kuala Lumpur,
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Malaysia,
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Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia, ;
Gender: Female
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2 5 y separately published work icon Only the Astronauts Ceridwen Dovey , Camberwell : Hamish Hamilton , 2024 27539640 2024 selected work short story 'Adrift in outer space, a motley crew of human-made objects tell their tales, making real history sweeter and stranger. Starman, a lovelorn mannequin orbiting the Sun in his cherry-red car, pines for his creator. The first sculpture ever taken to the Moon is possessed by the spirit of Neil Armstrong. The International Space Station, awaiting deorbit and burial in a spacecraft cemetery beneath the ocean, farewells its last astronauts. A team of tamponauts sets off on a perilous mission to Mars inspired by the courage of their predecessors. The Voyager 1 space probe, carrying its precious Golden Record, is captured by Oortians near the edge of the solar system and drawn into their baroque, glimmering rituals. By turns joyous and mournful, these object-astronauts are not high priests of the universe but something a little, weirder. From their inverted perspectives, they observe humans both intimately and from a great distance, bearing witness to a civilisation unable to live up to its own ideals. And yet each still finds in our planet, in their humans, something worthy of love.' 

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2 y separately published work icon Old Seems to Be Other People Lily Brett , Melbourne : Hamish Hamilton , 2021 21844980 2021 selected work prose autobiography

'In Old Seems to be Other People, Lily Brett’s unique take on getting older is simultaneously hilarious, serious and utterly irresistible.

''I didn’t want to derail myself by thinking about my vulva and whether it was hospitable enough…’

'Most of us would like to live to an old age, but few of us actually want to be old.

'In this disarming, intimate and self-deprecating collection of vignettes about aging, Lily Brett gives us snapshots of her life in New York. After avoiding a large dog that turns out to be a fire hydrant, and mistaking a tall, grey-haired woman for her husband, Lily has to concede that her ophthalmologist is right: she does need cataract surgery. She’s transfixed by a speed-dating dinner at a local cafe, and is told they also have speed-dating dinners for seniors. In the crowded Apple store, in Soho, two young Apple assistants decide it will take both of them to help her.

'In Old Seems to be Other People, Lily Brett’s unique take on getting older is simultaneously hilarious, serious and utterly irresistible.' (Publication summary)
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