1988 short story collection by Frank Moorhouse
Forty-Seventeen is a collection of short stories by the Australian writer Frank Moorhouse, published by Viking, in 1988.
The collection consists of 19 short stories from a variety of sources.
Contents.
 ;templatestyles src="Div col/styles.css"/ ;
Critical reception.
Writing in "The Canberra Times" reviewer Mark Thomas noted: ""Forty-Seventeen" has been generously treated, and slivers of the book do genuinely deserve applause. Moorhouse's aptitude for rendering dialogue is as keen as ever, especially with conversations in which grog is involved as subject or succour. His rambling digressions are again wry and artful; in "Forty-Seventeen", Moorhouse regales us with observations on camping, conferences, sluttishness, and the Spanish Civil War, as well as the hardy perennial of drinking...But the book really lacks much discipline or development. Or, as Moorhouse remarks of a more carnal passion, 'it is a love without definition but not without art'. Lack of definition connotes lack of clarity and lack of force."
Richard Eder in "The Los Angeles Times" wrote: "Middle age is a hilltop from which the shapes of life past and life to come turn dismayingly visible. We name this dismay the mid-life crisis; a detonation like a star-shell that bathes the hilltop vantage in dead-white light. "Forty-Seventeen" by the Australian novelist Frank Moorhouse is about one man's view from his shell-lit hill. It is a landscape of wreckage and hope, of breakdown and renewal, of lives and loves disintegrating and re-forming."
Publication history.
After the collection's initial publication by Viking in 1988 it was republished as follows:
The collection was also translated into Spanish and Swedish in 1990, French in 1992, and German in 2000.
References.
 ;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" / ;