Young people try – and fail – to live gorgeously in the Melbourne writer’s debut collection, which is bleak, acute and stealthily tender
he stories collected in Paul Dalla Rosa’s debut, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life, are similar enough that you sense a theme, different enough that each comes as a relief. They’re about young modern lives: precarious and disappointing houses, boyfriends, jobs; trying to make beautiful art, or a beautiful self, to do something or be someone that matters . And the lust and vanity and vulnerability of that.
Characters have no massive epiphanies. In Brooklyn, Melbourne, the Gold Coast, Dubai, innocuous miscalculations make their lives variously more stressful: they slide into debt; get saddled with bad housemates; botch hook-ups, professional opportunities and dermal Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morningHe is very funny, with a lightness of touch that both eases the bleakness and makes it worse – skewering his characters with a deadpan economy that belies his keen interest in them. One couple, from the window in the apartment they can’t afford, can “see the tops of oaks, branches beginning to bud with leaves, and, across the street, a woman rummaging through trash.
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Vivid returns to Sydney 'bigger, bolder and better than ever'Vivid Sydney returns on Friday after two years of COVID-related cancellations with an extended light walk, the southern hemisphere's largest drone show and a laser installation in a disused tunnel.
Read more »
Vivid returns to Sydney tomorrow night after two years of COVID-19 cancellationsFollowing a pandemic and six months of rain, Sydney is slowly coming out of the Dark Ages. The city is set to light up from tomorrow night during the Vivid lights festival. KateCreedon9 9News DETAILS:
Read more »
Teal independents flush out the Liberal party in inner-city seats across Australia – videoLiberal incumbents in traditionally safe urban electorates across the country have been pushed out, paving the way for Labor government
Read more »
Amazon shareholders reject 15 motions on worker rights and environmentResolutions included calls for company to report on health and safety and review use of plastic
Read more »
Liberal party should forego ‘entitled’ Kooyong voters, says their own state Liberal MPTim Smith, who is retiring in November, says Coalition needs to ‘stop obsessing with the woke causes of inner-urban elites’ and focus on suburbs
Read more »