Forty-Seventeen is a collection of short stories by the Australian writer Frank Moorhouse, published by Viking, in 1988.
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."
Forty-Seventeen is a collection of short stories by the Australian writer Frank Moorhouse, published by Viking, in 1988.
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."