| Reading Madame Bovary | |
| Author: | Amanda Lohrey |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | short story collection |
| Publisher: | Black Inc |
| Release Date: | 2010 |
| Media Type: | Print Paperback |
| Pages: | 269 |
| Isbn: | 9781863954907 |
| Preceded By: | Vertigo |
| Followed By: | A Short History of Richard Kline |
Reading Madame Bovary (2010) is a collection of short stories by Australian author Amanda Lohrey.[1] It won the Fiction Prize and Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award at the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards in 2011.[2]
Carol Middleton in Overland was impressed by the stories: "Lohrey has a remarkable ability to be lyrical and profound while keeping both feet in the here and now of Australian life. For a ‘literary’ writer, she is refreshingly comfortable with the mundane minutiae of modern life (to-do lists and washing up) and, from there, teases out the themes and issues that lie beneath the surface of contemporary consciousness."[3]