'Rosanne Dingli's stories deal with art, music, and literature, and are intensely concerned with location and atmosphere. They combine diverse meanings of intimacy experienced by a fascinating assortment of characters, at different times, in different places.
Uneasy familiarity between friends thrown together by a difficult love for one woman, or the bond of siblings, are forms of intimacy that can border on contempt. Artists, musicians and writers can have such similar intense feelings ... or such diverse emotions, about similar situations. Lovers' tenderness can endure because of deep understanding. Betrayal, confusion and joy live side-by-side with disappointment, bewilderment and elation, and always, there is that sense of involvement, of relationship.
This is an excursion into how close, or how distant, two individuals can feel. Enjoy this special bijou collection of fifteen previously published and awarded stories' (publisher blurb).
The Bookbinder's Brother was originally published by Jacobyte Books (Adelaide) in 2003. After the company folded and the book went out of print, Rosanne Dingli revised the stories and republished seven in the 2011 online publication A Great Intimacy and Other Stories. Seven other stories from the 2003 collection, along with 'Playing from Memory' appear in the 2011 collection Encore ('Playing from Memory appears in both publications). A Great Intimacy and Other Stories and Encore were both published as ebooks via the CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
In 2012 Dingli republished the revised stories under the original title The Bookbinder's Brother through her own imprint, Yellow Teapot Books. This revised collection has been published as both ebooks and as paperbacks. The digital formats are avialable via Kindle (Amazon) and the CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
A fictionalised episode from the life of Franz Lehár, 'The Land of Smiles,' was inspired by the picture "Scene from Musical Comedy" (1967) by Jack Brack (held by the University of Western Australia art collection, the Lawrence Wilson Gallery, Nedlands, Perth).
[Source: Rosanne Dingli, Gangway 16 (2000)]
Encore
Perth
:
Rosanne Dingli
,
2011
Z1845268
2011
selected work
short story
'Music has the ability to change moods, to soothe or excite. These short stories are gathered loosely around a musical theme. The romance, the passion, the inspiration of music, and how it affects people' (publisher blurb).
A Great Intimacy and Other Stories
Perth
:
Rosanne Dingli
,
2011
Z1845248
2011
selected work
short story
The short stories in this collection combine diverse meanings of intimacy experienced by a fascinating assortment of characters, at different times, in different places.
