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The Age of Fibs
Beth Spencer's award-winning collection crosses boundaries of genre, time, history and desire; meditating on how we create ourselves through culture and stories, and why it matters.
An Angel is suspended in protest beneath a forest-green canopy; a girl watches Bewitched and dreams of being part of a coven; a man struggles to wrest back control of his story; and the cast of Fatal Attraction is let loose on the streets of Newtown. Memories of football and class, museums, tv families, Barbie dolls, and growing up in the age of Fibs bras and the rise and fall of the Whitlam government.
From the author of the critically acclaimed How to Conceive of a Girl, this collection seamlessly interweaves past & future, the critical & nostalgic, the experimental & the intimate.
An Angel is suspended in protest beneath a forest-green canopy; a girl watches Bewitched and dreams of being part of a coven; a man struggles to wrest back control of his story; and the cast of Fatal Attraction is let loose on the streets of Newtown. Memories of football and class, museums, tv families, Barbie dolls, and growing up in the age of Fibs bras and the rise and fall of the Whitlam government.
From the author of the critically acclaimed How to Conceive of a Girl, this collection seamlessly interweaves past & future, the critical & nostalgic, the experimental & the intimate.
208 pages, Paperback
Published April 22, 2022
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About the author
Beth Spencer
6 books22 followersI’m an Australian author writing a mix of fiction, poetry, memoir and essay.
My most recent book is The Age of Fibs: stories, memoir, microlit (SW, 2022).
Previous books include Vagabondage, a verse memoir about the year I lived in a campervan; How to Conceive of a Girl (fiction, Random House); and The Party of Life, a bilingual (English-Chinese) poetry collection from ASM/Flying Islands.
I’ve received various awards, such as the Age Short Story Award, runner up for the Steele Rudd Award (for How to Conceive of a Girl), and the Inaugural Dinny O’Hearn Fellowship. I’ve also received several fellowships from the Literature Board of the Australia Council and support from CreateNSW. In 2006 I was awarded a PhD for my thesis, 'The Body as Fiction / Fiction as a Way of Thinking'.
I[ve also had essays, opinion pieces and articles published widely in Australian newspapers such as The Age and Canberra Times, in academic journals, and broadcast on ABC Radio National. A double CD of my radio pieces, Body of Words, was published by dogmedia.
My campervan, Vandelicious, has moved on to new owners and new adventures and I now lives in a tiny house on the NSW central coast, surrounded by birds and waterdragons, and at www.bethspencer.com.
My most recent book is The Age of Fibs: stories, memoir, microlit (SW, 2022).
Previous books include Vagabondage, a verse memoir about the year I lived in a campervan; How to Conceive of a Girl (fiction, Random House); and The Party of Life, a bilingual (English-Chinese) poetry collection from ASM/Flying Islands.
I’ve received various awards, such as the Age Short Story Award, runner up for the Steele Rudd Award (for How to Conceive of a Girl), and the Inaugural Dinny O’Hearn Fellowship. I’ve also received several fellowships from the Literature Board of the Australia Council and support from CreateNSW. In 2006 I was awarded a PhD for my thesis, 'The Body as Fiction / Fiction as a Way of Thinking'.
I[ve also had essays, opinion pieces and articles published widely in Australian newspapers such as The Age and Canberra Times, in academic journals, and broadcast on ABC Radio National. A double CD of my radio pieces, Body of Words, was published by dogmedia.
My campervan, Vandelicious, has moved on to new owners and new adventures and I now lives in a tiny house on the NSW central coast, surrounded by birds and waterdragons, and at www.bethspencer.com.
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July 10, 2022
A wonderful collage - poignant, clever, insightful and playful. Brilliant writing and powerful memoir elements. Highly recommended!
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