Joanna Murray-Smith
Autor(a) de Sunnyside
Obras por Joanna Murray-Smith
Stories of love & deception : three plays : Day one, a hotel, evening ; True minds ; Fury (2015) 1 exemplar
Lovechild 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1962-04-17
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Australia
- Local de nascimento
- Mount Eliza, Victoria, Australia
- Ocupações
- playwright
- Relações
- Murray-Smith, Stephen (father)
Membros
Críticas
Listas
Prémios
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 19
- Membros
- 121
- Popularidade
- #164,307
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 2
- ISBN
- 40
If you saw my Sensational Snippet from Sunnyside, you will know that the novel is a comedy of manners satirising The Good Life. Murray-Smith is a well-known playwright here in Melbourne, and she has chosen what is obviously Mt Eliza on the Mornington Peninsula as the setting for a privileged suburb called Sunnyside, with less stylish Frankston masquerading as nearby Deptford. The main industry in Sunnyside is real estate, and the annual community event is the Real Estate Agents’ Race, aping the inner-city waiters’ race but with estate agents running the course carrying Open For Inspection boards.
The novel begins with the dinner-party revelation that Molly, wife of David and mother of Justin, has been enjoying herself with the man who cleans their pool. This triggers an existential crisis among their set, some wondering if they too are missing out on sexual adventure and self-fulfilment, and others analysing the purpose and direction of their own marriages. New temptations arise: a sexy old school friend arrives in Sunnyside, and a university lecturer gets perilously close to a student. Children on the cusp of adolescence have their own existential crises too: school, of course, but also dismay about parental behaviour, and anxiety about contemporary issues and their own powerlessness in the face of adult indifference.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2013/09/21/sunnyside-by-joanna-murray-smith/… (mais)