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''Lunch of Blood'' is Antonella Gambotto-Burke's first book and first anthology. The title was inspired by a Saul Bellow poem: "Mice hide when hawks are high; Hawks shy from airplanes; Planes dread the ack-ack-ack; Each one fears somebody. Only the heedless lions Under the Booloo tree Snooze in each other's arms After their lunch of blood - I call that living good!"〔''Humboldt's Gift'', by Saul Bellow, Penguin Classics, 1996 (first published in 1975), pp.111〕 Published by Random House in 1994, ''Lunch of Blood'' was dedicated to the artist and critic John Henshaw,〔(John Henshaw, Art Gallery of New South Wales Collection )〕 and includes Gambotto-Burke's 1991 ''Independent on Sunday'' cover story on British cardiothoracic surgeons ("Affairs of the Heart"), and interviews with Martin Amis, Edward de Bono, Gérard Depardieu, Alex Dimitriades, Ben Elton, Rachel Hunter, Elle Macpherson, Morrissey, Marc Newson, Noah Taylor, Naomi Wolf, and others. It peaked at number four on ''The Sydney Morning Heralds bestseller lists and, according to a review section cover story in ''The Weekend Australian'', established Gambotto-Burke's reputation as the "Stilettoed Assassin".〔"Antonella's Ashes," by Murray Waldren, ''The Weekend Australian'', 20 March 2004.〕 ==Critical response== ''The Canberra Times'' critic explained, "Geoffrey Wheatcroft called their tool of trade ‘the killer interview’. Mark Lawson christened the movement ‘jugular journalism’. It was like a bullfight, he said. ‘Fifteen hundred words flash by, a succession of passes with the muleta, and then comes estocada, and another carcass is dragged away by the mule-team’ … (is ) one of our matador-interviewers."〔"Encounters with a Jugular Journalist," by Maurice Dunlevy, ''The Canberra Times,'' 23 April 1994.〕 ''Australian Bookseller & Publisher'' concurred: "The interviews hang together superbly as a collection, largely because Gambotto has … the astonishing ability to reveal the absolute essence of a person."〔"La Gambotto," by Stuart Coupe, ''Australian Bookseller & Publisher'', February 1994.〕 And in ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', Don Anderson described Gambotto-Burke in interviewer mode as "a Tinker Bell among the pirates, sprinkling fairy dust in the eyes of celebrity crocodiles ...," and concluded: "Never let it be said that Michael Douglas's line in ''Wall Street'', 'Lunch is for wimps', could apply to her."〔"Menu passes off opinion as interview," by Don Anderson, ''The Sydney Morning Herald,'' 30 April 1994.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lunch of Blood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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