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The Inspector-General of Misconception

Frank Moorhouse

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English
Vintage (Australia)
01 March 2002
'Australia's funniest writer' Clive James

'Australia's funniest writer' Clive James

From eating oysters to the lost art of speech-making, Frank Moorhouse as The Inspector General applies his fastidious eye to the habits and ways of our society. Described by Clive James as Australia's Funniest Author, Frank Moorhouse brings satire, irreverence and mischievous wit to this ultimate compendium to sorting things out.
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Imprint:   Vintage (Australia)
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   282g
ISBN:   9780091841621
ISBN 10:   0091841623
Pages:   320
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Frank Moorhouse was born in the coastal town of Nowra, NSW. He worked as an editor of small-town newspapers and as an administrator and in 1970s became a full-time writer. He won national prizes for his fiction, non-fiction, and essays. He was best known for the highly acclaimed Edith trilogy, Grand Days, Dark Palace, and Cold Light, novels which follow the career of an Australian woman in the League of Nations in the 1920s and 1930s through to the International Atomic Energy Agency in the 1970s as she struggled to become a diplomat. His last book The Drover's Wife - a reading adventure published in October 2017, brings together works inspired by Henry Lawson's story and examines the attachment Australia has to the story and to Russell Drysdale's painting of the same name. Frank was awarded a number of fellowships including writer in residence at King's College Cambridge, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. His work has been translated into several languages. He was made a member of the Order of Australia for services to literature in 1985 and was made a Doctor of the University by Griffith University in 1997 and a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) by the University of Sydney, 2015. Frank Moorhouse died, in Sydney, on 26 June 2022.

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