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Good Reading : Febuary 2009
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author profile 1 darkness SAUL ALEXANDER talks to MARGO LANAGAN about her latest novel, and why darkness is a necessary force in literature – and life. I ’m meeting Margo Lanagan at what could be a pivotal moment in her writing career. Tender Morsels, her first novel in twelve years, and her first marketed to adults in over twenty, will be on bookshop shelves in less than a month. She presses an advance copy into my hands. The cover depicts a lush yet forbidding forest. In the bottom corner, a wolf peeks out from behind a tree, inviting the reader to enter a fairytale world of magic and menace. A multi-award winning author, Margo is best known for her collections of darkly fantastical short stories. Each 20 goodreading i FEBRUARY 2009 light of these volumes displays Margo’s genius for descriptive prose and world creation. In twenty pages she will effortlessly construct a vivid and astonishing reality, engross the reader in a tense and often moving situation, and then resolve it in an unexpected way. Along the way she twists the English language every which way to fit the rhythms of her characters’ thoughts and words. Then she will do it all again in the next story – new rules, new characters and a completely different flavour of strangeness. The following is the opening to Monkey’s Paternoster, a short story from the anthology Red Spikes: and
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