![]() The dirt must long for these distant stories the way a child yearns for an absent mother. In her debut novel The Burial, Courtney Collins supposes that the earth would favour the stories of those who are furthest from it, ‘the ones who are suspended in flight’. “If the dirt could speak, whose story would it tell?” Unearthing Herstory: Courtney Collins’ The Burial Read article, published by Crikey’ s literary blog, Liticism, on 19 March 2012. Either way, Schabas’ prose is beautiful, detailed and engrossing, and Various Positions is worth reading for this alone. On the other, it’s an ambitious homage to Nabokov’s Lolita that questions the nature of truth and responsibility. ![]() ![]() On one hand, the plot is fraught with clichés connected to ballet and to ‘coming of age’ plotlines. It’s difficult to know what position to take with Martha Schabas’ debut novel, Various Positions. Repositioning Lolita: Martha Schabas’ Various Positions ![]()
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