Greta Garbo's Feet & Other Stories

Citation

Delahunt M (2015) Greta Garbo's Feet & Other Stories. Edinburgh: Word Power Women. http://www.word-power.co.uk/books/greta-garbos-feet-amp-other-stories-I9780992739263/

Abstract
Delahunt's lyrical, honed, and attentive prose, evocative imagery and political questionings are given full rein in this collection. These are stories of longing, mourning, and risk-taking set in India and Mexico, Scotland, Greece and Australia. The scope and ambition of these stories - ranging across different voices, characters, continents and time - show an artist fully and playfully at home with the form: a young girl yearns to be a cliff diver in Acapulco; a violent man talks to his plants in a Melbourne courtyard; an elderly woman refuses to give up sex; a transgender beautician sleeps with a transvestite doctor; a 20th century Revolutionary time travels to Scotland; a couple in Greece find their intimacy disrupted by a stranger. Vivid, visceral and often darkly comic, Delahunt plays with form and content - from the Japanese haibun to the dramatic monologue.