An exciting and vivid inner life : stories /
Dalla Rosa, Paul,
An exciting and vivid inner life : stories / Exciting & vivid inner life Paul Dalla Rosa. - Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2022. - 220 pages ; 24 cm.
Signed by the author.
The hard thing -- Comme -- Short stack -- Charlie in high definition -- The fame -- Contact -- An MFA story -- Life coach -- I feel it-- In bright light.
"Whether working in food service or in high-end retail, lit by a laptop in a sex chat or by the camera of an acclaimed film director, sharing a dangerous apartment in the city, a rooming house in China or a vacation rental in Mallorca, the protagonists of the ten stories comprising Paul Dalla Rosa's debut collection, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life, navigate the spaces between aspiration and delusion, ambition and aimlessness, the curated profile and the unreliable body. By turns unsparing and tender, Dalla Rosa explores our lives in late-stage capitalism, where globalisation and its false promises of connectivity and equity leave us all further alienated and disenfranchised. His stories are small masterpieces of regret, futility and tenderness, dripping with acuity, irony and wit." -- Back cover.
9781761066191 1761066196
jb2022020162
Short stories, Australian.
Aspiration (Virtue)--Fiction.
Australian fiction.
Ambition--Fiction.
Delusions--Fiction.
Globalization--Fiction.
Capitalism--Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology)--Fiction.
Creative writing--Fiction.
AUS fiction (Victoria) Short stories (Victoria)
Australian fiction
Short stories
A823.4
An exciting and vivid inner life : stories / Exciting & vivid inner life Paul Dalla Rosa. - Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2022. - 220 pages ; 24 cm.
Signed by the author.
The hard thing -- Comme -- Short stack -- Charlie in high definition -- The fame -- Contact -- An MFA story -- Life coach -- I feel it-- In bright light.
"Whether working in food service or in high-end retail, lit by a laptop in a sex chat or by the camera of an acclaimed film director, sharing a dangerous apartment in the city, a rooming house in China or a vacation rental in Mallorca, the protagonists of the ten stories comprising Paul Dalla Rosa's debut collection, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life, navigate the spaces between aspiration and delusion, ambition and aimlessness, the curated profile and the unreliable body. By turns unsparing and tender, Dalla Rosa explores our lives in late-stage capitalism, where globalisation and its false promises of connectivity and equity leave us all further alienated and disenfranchised. His stories are small masterpieces of regret, futility and tenderness, dripping with acuity, irony and wit." -- Back cover.
9781761066191 1761066196
jb2022020162
Short stories, Australian.
Aspiration (Virtue)--Fiction.
Australian fiction.
Ambition--Fiction.
Delusions--Fiction.
Globalization--Fiction.
Capitalism--Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology)--Fiction.
Creative writing--Fiction.
AUS fiction (Victoria) Short stories (Victoria)
Australian fiction
Short stories
A823.4
