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A town called Merv
Brilliant writing from the quixotic David Foster

SONS OF THE RUMOUR
by David Foster
Picador, $39.99 hb, 431 pp,

At the end of her insightful critical
study David Foster: Satirist
of Australia (2008), Susan
Lever quotes several rather despondent-
sounding letters from her subject.
In one, he claims to have lost his taste
for satire; in another, he declares that he
is ‘over’ literature. Yet he also expresses
a continuing desire ‘to write books that
are strange and beautiful’, and reveals
he is at work on a new novel, his first
since The Land Where Stories End (2001),
one that draws on the framing tale of
Arabian Nights and explores his ‘twin
obsessions’: sexuality and mysticism.
As Lever’s book establishes, Foster

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