Martini: A Memoir

Martini: A Memoir

Martini: A Memoir is a book by the Australian writer Frank Moorhouse. Part autobiography, part history of the martini, the book's minimal plot involves deep conversations about the cocktail between the author and his martini-obsessed friend, V.I. Voltz[citation needed].

The book includes love letters written by Moorhouse's ex-wife, the journalist Wendy James, to him during her time as a student in Nowra. She was deeply unhappy at their unauthorised publication and at the suggestion that she had had an affair with one of her teachers. James requested that any monies earned from the book's publication be donated to charity, suggesting that charities which aid children affected by AIDS would be suitable recipients. Moorhouse offered to return 20-30 letters to James but refused to apologise for the passages of the book dealing with the affair with the teacher saying, "Nowhere in the book is it seriously suggested that the ex-wife -- not that it's purely Wendy -- ever had an affair with her teacher. This idea exists only in the mind of the character -- of the demented narrator-author."[1]

References

  1. ^ Jonathan Porter (31 March 2007). "Martini stirs Moorhouse ex's fury". The Australian. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/martini-stirs-moorhouse-exs-fury/story-e6frg6nf-1111113256922. Retrieved 1 August 2011. 

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