A story collection that perfectly captures life in the internet age
Shortlisted for the 2023 Victorian Premier's Literary Award 'Truly excellent' Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize 'Voyeuristically addictive, funny, and deceptively simple' Halle Butler, author of The New Me Whether working in food service or in high-end retail, lit by a laptop in a sex chat or by the camera of an acclaimed film director, or sharing a flat in the city or a holiday rental in Mallorca, the protagonists of the ten stories comprising Paul Dalla Rosa's debut collection navigate the spaces between aspiration and delusion, ambition and aimlessness, the curated profile and the unreliable body. By turns unsparing and tender, Dalla Rosa explores our lives in late-stage Capitalism, where globalisation and its false promises of connectivity leave us further alienated and disenfranchised. Like the legendary Lucia Berlin and his contemporary Ottessa Moshfegh, Dalla Rosa is a masterful observer-and hilarious eviscerator-of our ugly, beautiful attempts at finding meaning in an ugly, beautiful world.
"With caustic wit, Dalla Rosa performs a kind of surgery on his characters, splitting them wide open to reveal something exciting and vivid, ugly and depraved" - Guardian
"Darkly funny ... Bitingly ironic and immensely original" - Sunday Times
"A blisteringly brilliant and deliciously unsettling short-story collection" - Attitude
"What is remarkable about this collection is that Dalla Rosa harnesses the unique strengths of the short story form to achieve a myriad portrait of this particular crossroads in contemporary history, especially as it impinges on young gay people." - Astra
"Collected in An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life, the short stories of Melbourne writer Paul Dalla Rosa use minimalism to elevate the state of in-betweenness to an exercise of constraint. His stories eschew spectacle ... but their resonance is created by more subtle means, by the promises that these lonely and angst-ridden characters are learning about themselves, learning (through their failures) how to exist in a world with the odds stacked against them" - Sydney Morning Herald
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Shortlisted for the 2023 Victorian Premier's Literary Award 'Truly excellent' Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize 'Voyeuristically addictive, funny, and deceptively simple' Halle Butler, author of The New Me Whether working in food service or in high-end retail, lit by a laptop in a sex chat or by the camera of an acclaimed film director, or sharing a flat in the city or a holiday rental in Mallorca, the protagonists of the ten stories comprising Paul Dalla Rosa's debut collection navigate the spaces between aspiration and delusion, ambition and aimlessness, the curated profile and the unreliable body. By turns unsparing and tender, Dalla Rosa explores our lives in late-stage Capitalism, where globalisation and its false promises of connectivity leave us further alienated and disenfranchised. Like the legendary Lucia Berlin and his contemporary Ottessa Moshfegh, Dalla Rosa is a masterful observer-and hilarious eviscerator-of our ugly, beautiful attempts at finding meaning in an ugly, beautiful world.
"With caustic wit, Dalla Rosa performs a kind of surgery on his characters, splitting them wide open to reveal something exciting and vivid, ugly and depraved" - Guardian
"Darkly funny ... Bitingly ironic and immensely original" - Sunday Times
"A blisteringly brilliant and deliciously unsettling short-story collection" - Attitude
"What is remarkable about this collection is that Dalla Rosa harnesses the unique strengths of the short story form to achieve a myriad portrait of this particular crossroads in contemporary history, especially as it impinges on young gay people." - Astra
"Collected in An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life, the short stories of Melbourne writer Paul Dalla Rosa use minimalism to elevate the state of in-betweenness to an exercise of constraint. His stories eschew spectacle ... but their resonance is created by more subtle means, by the promises that these lonely and angst-ridden characters are learning about themselves, learning (through their failures) how to exist in a world with the odds stacked against them" - Sydney Morning Herald
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