Out of the Line of Fire - Hardcover

Mark William Henshaw

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241126312 ISBN 13: 9780241126318

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 1989

Synopsis

Set in Heidelberg, this novel concerns the life of Wolfi, a prodigy and student of philosophy. Fact and fiction combine as Wolfi describes his strange family from his father, a professor of philosophy, to his grandmother who paid for his sexual initiation with a prostitute.

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Review

"A remarkable and brainy work of metafiction.""Kirkus" (starred review)
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"A remarkable and brainy work of metafiction."--Kirkus (starred review)

About the Author

Mark Henshaw has lived in France, Germany, Yugoslavia and the United States. He currently lives in Canberra. OUT OF THE LINE OF FIRE won the FAW Barbara Ramsden Award and the NBC New Writers Award on first publication in 1988. It was also shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Age Book of the Year Award. It was one of the biggest selling Australian literary novels of the decade, and is being republished in the Text Classics series.
In 1989 Mark was awarded a Commonwealth Literary Fellowship, and in 1994 he won the ACT Literary Award. Under the pseudonym J. M. Calder, in collaboration with John Clanchy, he has written two crime novels, If God Sleeps (1996) and And Hope to Die (2007). His work has been widely translated. For many years he was a Curator of International Art at the National Gallery of Australia. He recently returned to writing fiction full-time. His most recent book is THE SNOW KIMONO.

Stephen Romei is a journalist, writer and critic. He is literary editor of The Australian newspaper, and former editor of the Australian Literary Review.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241126312
• ISBN 13: 9780241126318
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216