How to tell your father to drop dead … and other stories
Jeremy Fisher’s new book sees him wrestling with his obsessions, exploring and encountering the world in a range of voices and genres. The personal and political merge in these stories, which often veer on the edge of reality. A simmering gay, BDSM, corrupt Sydney emerges in “The poofter’s dog”. “On Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse in a Vietnamese café” and “Mementoes” are meditations on life outside the mainstream and its simplicities and complexities. “Letter to my children” addresses a gay man’s spiritual heirs. In “The rotary coconut scraper” a bemused tourist encounters the wrath of the Sri Lankan Army while in “The North German Publishing Company” an author finds his book a success in Germany, but as a comedy, not the tragedy he thought he wrote. The title story, a powerful account of the death of a parent, details the bonds of love and duty between father and son. In this book you will find sex, death, love, blood and lust along with laughter and delight.
ISBN: 978-0959035-04-9
Jeremy Fisher’s new book sees him wrestling with his obsessions, exploring and encountering the world in a range of voices and genres. The personal and political merge in these stories, which often veer on the edge of reality. A simmering gay, BDSM, corrupt Sydney emerges in “The poofter’s dog”. “On Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse in a Vietnamese café” and “Mementoes” are meditations on life outside the mainstream and its simplicities and complexities. “Letter to my children” addresses a gay man’s spiritual heirs. In “The rotary coconut scraper” a bemused tourist encounters the wrath of the Sri Lankan Army while in “The North German Publishing Company” an author finds his book a success in Germany, but as a comedy, not the tragedy he thought he wrote. The title story, a powerful account of the death of a parent, details the bonds of love and duty between father and son. In this book you will find sex, death, love, blood and lust along with laughter and delight.
ISBN: 978-0959035-04-9
Music from another country
On 1 October 2009 Fat Frog Books published Music from another Country by Jeremy Fisher. The book was reviewed in the Sydney Morning Herald's Spectrum section of 10 October, 2009, by Kerryn Goldsworthy who described it as "a moving story about masculinity, families and courage".
Gary Dunne says: "Music from another country is a really good read. It's the story of young Alex uncovering various family secrets, with flashbacks to both his brother Kieran in Darlinghurst in the early 1990s, and their grandfather Neil, a Lancaster pilot in World War II. Jeremy deals with Kieran's HIV death in the same way he deals with the events that scored Neil his Victoria Cross. Vividly descriptive, his style leads you to an emotional response, rather than tells you what you should be feeling. The result is a surprisingly gentle tale, but with an emotional sting, about the universality of courage and love." Gary's web page is here.
ISBN: 978-0-9590350-3-2
On 1 October 2009 Fat Frog Books published Music from another Country by Jeremy Fisher. The book was reviewed in the Sydney Morning Herald's Spectrum section of 10 October, 2009, by Kerryn Goldsworthy who described it as "a moving story about masculinity, families and courage".
Gary Dunne says: "Music from another country is a really good read. It's the story of young Alex uncovering various family secrets, with flashbacks to both his brother Kieran in Darlinghurst in the early 1990s, and their grandfather Neil, a Lancaster pilot in World War II. Jeremy deals with Kieran's HIV death in the same way he deals with the events that scored Neil his Victoria Cross. Vividly descriptive, his style leads you to an emotional response, rather than tells you what you should be feeling. The result is a surprisingly gentle tale, but with an emotional sting, about the universality of courage and love." Gary's web page is here.
ISBN: 978-0-9590350-3-2