Expressway: Twenty-Nine Australian Writers Respond to Helen Daniel's Invitation: Stories Based on Jeffrey Smart's Painting "Cahill Expressway"

by Helen Daniel (Editor), Glenda Adams (Contributor), Grant Caldwell (Contributor)

A collection of short stories by Australian writers based on Jeffrey Smart's painting "Cahill Expressway".
Contents:
Morris Lurie – "Art is Dangerous, Not So?"
Elizabeth Jolley – "The Widow's House"
Rod Jones – "The Ulcer"
Glenda Adams – "Our Town"
Barry Dickins – "The Spaz"
David Foster – "Death Touch"
Peter Goldsworthy – "Oblique Homages"
David Ireland – "Vision of Lindow Man"
Gerald Murnane – "Finger-web"
Kate Grenville – "Look on My Works"
Grant Caldwell – "The Lyrebird Exploding in Endlessness"
Brian Matthews – "The Ordinary Human Being Museum"
Finola Moorhead – "The Painting"
Nicholas Hasluck – "Take the Camera"
Louis Nowra – "The Father"
Glen Tomasetti – "My Sydney"
Marion Campbell – "My Flat Companions"
Mudrooroo Narogin – "Waitin"
Bill Reed – "Messman on the C.E. Altar"
David Malouf – "Second Time Round"
Richard Lunn – "Tunnel Vision"
Peter Corris – "Tie-breaker"
Garry Disher – "Love and Grudges"
Barbara Hanrahan – "Piles"
Michael Wilding – "Life in Review"
Peter Mathers – "Merchant"
Rodney Hall – "Bart"
Janette Turner Hospital – "Eggshell Expressway"
Amanda Lohrey – "Free Way"
Morris Lurie – "Art is Dangerous, Not So?"

Genres: Australia

294 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

Reviews

[Lisa]

Sampled some of the stories, but never got round to finishing them all.
I don't rate books I don't finish