Shooting the Fox

Marion Halligan (Author)

Shooting the Fox
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Country
Australia
Published
1 June 2011
Pages
240
ISBN
9781742376677

Shooting the Fox

Marion Halligan (Author)

Why did Bluebeard kill his wives? Because that’s what he did. It’s a given. It’s the plot. Until the lucky one, who is saved. The even more interesting question is: why did Mrs Bluebeard feel utterly unable to resist opening the door? Don’t we all think, when it comes to these stories, that we’d have made it work? So much freedom, and one tiny forbidden thing. Not important, a token in fact. So easy to obey so small a prohibition. We think, if I had been Eve I wouldn’t have picked the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, I wouldn’t have given a piece to Adam. I and my progeny down the millennia would still be multiplying fruitfully in the Garden of Eden.

Life in all its richness is reflected in this superb new collection from one of Australia’s most acclaimed short story writers. Love and loss, sex and death, and the great pleasures of food, wine and reading all populate its pages.

Shooting the Fox is brimming with surprising characters - the virgin and the pornographer, the adulterer, the translator, the defecting diplomat - and the inconveniences of modernity. In the end, though, it is a collection of stories about happiness, its circuitous routes, its surprising outcomes, and the consequences when we fail in its pursuit.

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