TY  - BOOK
AU  - Orr,Stephen
TI  - Sincerely, Ethel Malley
SN  - 9781743058084
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Mile End, S.A.
PB  - Wakefield Press
KW  - Malley, Ern.
KW  - Malley, Ern
KW  - Angry penguins
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Biographical fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Nineteen forties
KW  - Deception
KW  - fast
KW  - Hoaxes
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Adelaide (S.A.)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Australian stories
KW  - Adult fiction
KW  - Print
KW  - lcgft
KW  - 21st century
KW  - local
N2  - In the darkest days of World War II, Ethel Malley lives a quiet life on Dalmar Street, Croydon. One day she finds a collection of poems written by her late (and secretive) brother, Ern. She sends them to Max Harris, co-editor of modernist magazine Angry Penguins. He reads them and declares Ern an undiscovered genius. Determined to help publish the poems, Ethel moves in with Max and soon becomes a presence he can't understand, or control. He gets the feeling something's not quite right. About Ethel. About Ern. Then two poets come forward claiming they wrote Ern's poems. What follows is part-truth, part-hoax, a dark mystery as surreal as any of Ern's poems. Max wants to believe in Ern, but to do this he has to believe in Ethel, and attempt to understand her increasingly unpredictable behaviour. Then he's charged with publishing Ern's 'pornographic' poems. The questions of truth and lies, freedom of speech, and tradition versus modernism play out in a stifling Adelaide courtroom, around the nation's wirelesses, and in Max's head
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