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Lost in the Bush |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Robert Ross |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1993 |
| Size: 2,478 Words, 15,301 Characters |
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VANISHING POINTS
Thea Astley
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1992
234 pp., $21.95
In a twist of language typical of her stylistic oddities, Thea Astely calls one of the Oceanside resorts she condemns in Vanishing Points a "joy stalag." Yet the major characters in the book's two linked novellas find little joy in the "over priced ecstasy" of the hotels that clutter the once pristine northeastern coasts of Australia. Instead, they see themselves as cast out, then imprisoned in emotional stalags of their own invention. The tourists who stay at these "tenement" hotels Astely dubs "joyfesters." But for the central character in the first novella, "The Genteel Poverty Bus Company," it is an overwhelming resentment against the invasion that festers, not joy. The first-person female narrat...
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...e visited before. Perhaps all of Astley's takes her reader along to explore those regions they know nothing about and may never have visited before. Perhaps all of Astley's novels, each one a narrative act that traces a spiritual quest through and into language, are nothing more than "a journey from nowhere to nowhere." Or maybe they will lead out of the void, away from the vanishing points.
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