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Amazing!
I was just totally spellbound. This novel has everything you could want from a piece of fiction - color, pace, beauty, and a fantastic (unique?) use of language which reminded me of Nabokov and Bellow. The portrait of the tragedies that unfold within the family is just incredible. I really recommend this.

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"The detail of the fiction verges on social reality - a warts and all rundown on Australian, American and UK society ... an erotic journey of self-acknowledgment."Harper's Bazaar

"A brilliant first novel."Cosmopolitan

"Multi-layered and shimmering." Liquid Space Digital

"Beautiful ... Florid and ornamental, lavish andextravagant ... a love story."The Daily Telegraph

"A triumphas a work of fiction."The Brisbane News

"Gambotto writeswith great sensitivity and also has a keen eye for satire, which she usesto great effect."Tatler

"Rich, often infuriating, oftenungraspable, often highly satisfying ... A novel of considerable gusto anddaring."The Age

"Sharply observant and at times almostbrutal, she has an exquisite ability to dissect pomp and vanity. Abrilliant read."Fairlady

"Fierce ... Gambotto hassuccessfully combined humour, sarcasm and insight to write a novel thatcuts through the polished facade..."The Herald Sun

"Gambotto has hit on awinning formula - all life's excesses and vicissitudes are no match for hermain character."The Morning Bulletin

"A Victorian gothicmoral tale crossed with Jackie Collins' Hollywood Wives."InsideMelbourne

"This novel has it all - sex (lots and lots), adultery,murder, drugs, breakdowns and child abuse - with all the action...Cleo

"Gambotto possesses a major literarytalent."Who

"You will certainly learn things from thisbook."The Times

"Gambotto's use of imagery and metaphor thustranscends most popular literature ... incisive."The MensaInternational Journal

"The empathy and passion of a Brontenovel."The Perth Sunday Times

"Brilliant! Move over, AnaisNin!"The Sydney Morning Herald

"Dynasty written by a youngMartin Amis on speed - full of gilded aristocrats, spleen and sex ..." Tempo ... Read more

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A Really Great Read
"Lunch of Blood" is a powerful collection of profiles by Antonella Gambotto, one of Australia's most controversial and uncompromising interviewers. She is penetrating in her observations,ruthless in her descriptions, and not afraid to have opinions. We may nevermeet the people laid bare by these profiles - but there is writing herewhich will make the reader feel as unsettled as the subjects were ... In thewords of the Australian Bookseller & Publisher: "The interviewshang together superbly as a collection, largely because Gambotto has theastonishing ability to reveal the absolute essence of aperson."

Subjects include Martin Amis, James Blundell, Bondage &Discipline Mistresses, Edward de Bono, Cardiothoracic Surgeons, Nick Cave,Gerard Depardieu, Alex Dimitriades, Gosia Dobrowolska, Ben Elton, AndrewEttingshausen, Lisbeth Gorr, Rachel Hunter, Sean Kelly, Maria Kozic, SophieLee, Elle Macpherson, Male Prostitutes, Paul Mercurio, Morrissey, ThierryMugler, Richard Neville, Marc Newson, John Pilger, Gretel Pinniger, SiimonReynolds, Richard Stubbs, Noah Taylor, Naomi Wolf, and AdenYoung.

"Unflinchingly reported ... notorious." The SydneyWeekly. ... Read more

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The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide is an astonishing account of one woman's experience of love and loss. Gambotto's insight and compassion are startling; her ability to make sense of suicide, revolutionary. Does any man have the right to dispose of his own life? This is, she writes, the ultimate debate of moral entitlement. ... Read more

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A MASTERPIECE!
This beautiful book was surprising in so many ways. How can something so brutal in its honesty about suicidal urges and bereavement be so comforting? "Death is not the opposite of life; the opposite of death is birth," she writes. "Life has no opposite. It is a constant, like the universe. Suicide solves nothing." Amazing stuff.

A MASTERPIECE!
This beautiful book was surprising in so many ways. How can something so brutal in its honesty about suicidal urges and bereavement be so comforting? "Death is not the opposite of life; the opposite of death is birth," she writes. "Life has no opposite. It is a constant, like the universe. Suicide solves nothing." Amazing stuff. ... Read more

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Chapters: Thomas Keneally, Clive James, Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Robert Hughes, Chopper Read, Alan Villiers, Jack Lindsay, David Mcmillan, David Malouf, Jacqueline Pascarl, Thomas Braidwood Wilson, Donna Williams, John Hughes, Mem Fox, Louis Nowra, Ray Parkin, Kylie Tennant, Enid Lyons, Shirley Hazzard, Tilly Aston, Gladys Moncrieff, Jeannie Gunn, Nancy Phelan, Sally Morgan, Cate Kennedy, Gregory David Roberts, Henry Handel Richardson, Louisa Anne Meredith, James Bonwick, Maie Casey, Baroness Casey, Ruth Hegarty, Roland Griffiths-Marsh, Peter Kocan, Inga Clendinnen, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Morris Lurie, Lucy Blackman, Alan Marshall, Michael Vernon, Albert Facey, Marcus Clarke, Robert Knopwood, Vincent Serventy, Russel Ward, Mabel Brookes, Owen Suffolk, Timothy Conigrave, Keith Dunstan, Anne Mcdonald, Jack Davis, Nene King, Joy Jobbins, Hal Porter, James West, Warren Macdonald, Margaret Whitlam, Su Cruickshank, Nancy Keesing, Sabina Wolanski, Sue-Ann Post, Alexander Harris, Charles Huxtable, John Kingsmill, Georgia Blain, Mollie Skinner, Sara Henderson, Hugh Mccrae, Sarah Macdonald. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 272. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Unreliable Memoirs Clive James AM (born Vivian James, on 7 October 1939 in Kogarah, New South Wales) is an expatriate Australian critic, novelist, TV presenter, poet and essayist. James was born in Sydney, Australia. He was allowed to change his name as a child because "after Vivien Leigh played Scarlett O'Hara the name became irrevocably a girl's name no matter how you spelled it". His father was taken prisoner by the Japanese during the Second World War, and although he survived the POW camp, he died when the plane returning him to Australia crashed in Taiwan, and he was buried in Hong Kong. James, who was an only child, was brought ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=445291 ... Read more

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A second collection of Antonella Gambotto's interviews and speeches, this text is mainly comprised of her trademark acid accounts of celebrity interviews. Victims include Jeffrey Archer, Derryn Hinch, Linda Jaivin and Iva Davies. ... Read more

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2 cassettes, mono ... Read more