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Title	:	Martini: A Memoir by Moorhouse, Frank (2005) Hardcover
Author	:	Frank Moorhouse
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	2005 by Random House Australia
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Cultural. Australia. Biography

Martini: A Memoir by Moorhouse, Frank (2005) Hardcover Hardcover | Pages: 240 pages

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I became interested in this author after reading in the news today that he is boycotting a literary tour in China to protest the Communist government's imprisonment of Liu Xiaobo, lead organizer of the "Charter 8" petition and manifesto. Liu has also been a literary critic and guest lecturer at Columbia University.

Charter 8 was an open letter to the Communist Party leaders of China calling for press freedom and democratic reform. Liu was arrested on December 8, 2008 and later sentenced to 11 years in prison by the government of China.

Frank Moorhouse is an Australian author who has spoken out against the imprisonment of Liu and the overall suppression of free speech in China. His refusal to tour China was done, he says, to draw attention to its government's oppression of its citizens.

I ordered Moorhouse's memoir today, curious to read about his life. Am always interested in people who make unusual moral choices.

Moorhouse wrote the screenplay for the 1985 film, The Coca-Cola Kid, a kind of brilliant small picture starring Eric Roberts before he lost his mind and who is terrific in it. Awesome script.

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Original Title:	Martini : A Memoir
ISBN:	1740513126 (ISBN13: 9781740513128)

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Moorhouse is perhaps best known for winning the 2001 Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel, Dark Palace; which together with Grand Days and Cold Light, the "Edith Trilogy" is a fictional account of the League of Nations, which trace the strange, convoluted life of a young woman who enters the world of diplomacy in the 1920s through to her involvement in the newly formed International AtomicQuite simply one of the most delightful, entertaining, clever, honest memoirs I have ever had the pleasure to read. Life reviewed with the help of good friends, fellow drinkers, and that most sophisticated of drinks, the martini. I have been inspired to seek out my own perfect martini...it may take a while...olive, anyone?

Still reading. Still enjoying it. And then at 157 pages I realized I don't really care that much about martinis.

love it - took me 2 years to dry out

So far so good - if you're an avid martini drinker, you'll appreciate the nuances Moorhouse's memoirs offers.

Delightful and charming--- Moorhouse takes us on a rambling account of his own life through the martinis he's drunk and the places where he's drunk them. Moments of his own life are woven into bits of martini lore and history, and "Martini" leaves you thinking about both lost love affairs and the vexed question of why pre-1960 drinkers would add a dash of orange bitters to martinis...

I became interested in this author after reading in the news today that he is boycotting a literary tour in China to protest the Communist government's imprisonment of Liu Xiaobo, lead organizer of the "Charter 8" petition and manifesto. Liu has also been a literary critic and guest lecturer at Columbia University. Charter 8 was an open letter to the Communist Party leaders of China calling for press freedom and democratic reform. Liu was arrested on December 8, 2008 and later sentenced to 11