Long Afternoon of the World

Graeme Kinross-Smith

PB 368 PP 235 x 155 ISBN 9781862547377 $32.95 Fiction Wakefield Press July 2007

In mid-life Tim Menzies finds himself surrounded by a sheaf of letters and photographs he has never seen before – words and images that completely refigure his past and sense of identity.

Wartime chidhood, red farm dust, fragile contacts with his children, lithe and satisfying strategies of the tennis court, new sex and love – all must rearrange themselves before his eyes. He is not who he has always thought himself to be.

‘Long Afternoon is distinguished by its power of evocation, both in its summoning of the past, and its detailed charting of the contours of memory . . .’ – Ivor Indyk

‘Wonderful . . . delicious story . . . a fine writer.’ – Frank Moorhouse

Graeme Kinross-Smith is a writer of long standing in the Australian literary scene and is best known for his widely published poetry and short fiction.