Inez Baranay
Three Sydney Novels
an omnibus
ISBN 0975094890
Published by Three
Sydney Novels Project, 2004
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Sydney
in the 1950s, 70s and 90s is the setting for three of my earlier novels, long
out of print and now republished in a single omnibus volume.
Pagan
Between Careers
Sheila Power
Three
Sydney Novels, Back cover text:
Sydney
1950s
PAGAN
A
narrative tour de force.
-
EDITIONS
Pagan
is brilliantly written. As well as being very readable, it offers a highly
intelligent analysis of the themes of Australia's 20th century cultural
history set around a story that was to grab the imagination - and the
tabloids - of the country ... Baranay … has a great sense of character, an
acute mind which ranges through art, music, philosophy, politics and
literature, and a profound and insightful comprehension of the dynamics of
human behaviour. She also has a savage and urbane wit and a rare ability to
evoke human tragedy in the most understated of ways.
- THE ADVERTISER
Pagan
works on several levels simultaneously. It chronicles a society in
transition, contains a moving evocation of young love, and tries to unravel
the circumstances of the Goossens scandal of reputed orgies and pornographic
photographs. The novel also deals with the feminist tradition of Wicca -
witchcraft - and the highs and lows that individual lives can encompass.
- THE SUNDAY HERALD
Sydney
1970s
BETWEEN
CAREERS
Stylish,
provocative and wonderfully different.
- THE AGE
Set
in Sydney in the late seventies, Inez Baranay's witty, satirical first novel
takes us into the life of a classy call girl.....Wittily, humorously, Between
Careers takes a close look at the moral values of both the ancient profession
and of more conventional ways of living..... The prose is spare and
sparkling...
- THE CANBERRA
TIMES
"Wit,
style, pain, cruelty - Australia's Jean Rhys."
- FRANK MOORHOUSE
Like
good sex Between Careers gets better and better....
- THE SYDNEY
MORNING HERALD
Sydney
1990s
SHEILA
POWER
At
last, an Australian novel with a cast of characters as richly overdrawn and
brassy as any of the fabulous monsters in an Aaron Spelling TV series. A …
rattling good read that defies that defies pigeon-holing into any one genre..
...Sheila Power is a block-buster of a novel, a satirical thriller filled
with lashings of racy sex between moments of transcendental spirituality and
shopping.
- SYDNEY STAR
OBSERVER
[A]
mix of poignant comedy and eccentric social commentary … Inez Baranay’s cult
novel Sheila Power.
- THE AGE
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