Milk: Stories

by Beverley Farmer

178 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Short Stories Set In Greece And Australia.

Genres: Short Stories

192 pages, Paperback

First published July 2, 1985

Reviews

[Stef Rozitis · Rating 4 out of 5]

These stories show a "female gaze" view of hetrosexual relationships, marriage and children usually set in or around Greece or featuring Greek characers (there are a couple of exceptions but these also involve some level of culture clash). They seemed to me to fit well with The House in the Light, which I have read previously.

I really enjoyed the depictions of men and environment and food (and sometimes animals) as beautiful and all the ambivalences about motherhood. These books hint at a yearning for freedom from patriarchy but the women in them are subject to lusts I don't fully identify with for men who really obviously are going to mistreat them. Female friendship (generally across generations) hovers as well as an arena of ambivalence but also nurture. Care is duty and power and sometimes wears a grumpy face in these stories.

The writing itself is beautiful.

[Emily Bicknell · Rating 4 out of 5]

The stories are rich with the flavours, textures and sights of Greece and Australia, but there are heavy themes of sexual assault, immigration, violence and racism that mean though these stories are beautiful, they’re also quite unsettling. No character has a simple story as the complexity of human relationships and interactions unfolds seamlessly.

[Sochettra Boroath · Rating 2 out of 5]

The first three are purely enjoyable. Starting from the fourth, I can't tell whose point of view the stories are written from. Maybe there is some sort of sophistication going that my brain can't process, i stopped at the 5th. A bit disappointed since I had great expectation of the book.

[Tim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Picked up this stunning collection of short stories based on the cover. Connected by themes of divorce, family, love and need, isolation and desertion, experiences between Greek and Australia. Vivid, poetic and unflinching writing.

[Rose Neild]

wonderful!!