TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dalla Rosa,Paul
TI  - An exciting and vivid inner life: stories 
SN  - 9781761066191
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Crows Nest, NSW
PB  - Allen & Unwin
KW  - Short stories, Australian
KW  - Aspiration (Virtue)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Ambition
KW  - Delusions
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Self-actualization (Psychology)
KW  - Creative writing
KW  - AUS fiction (Victoria)
KW  - Short stories (Victoria)
KW  - Short stories
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
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