![]() ![]() Yet theirs is a friendship that goes back to their bohemian youth, tender and easy and proven. Helen's house becomes a force-field of grief, trauma, rage. Life and death, host and guest, engage in a bitter, paroxysmic agon, transgressing taboos. The Spare Room is a brief epic witnessing the clash of titanic wills, imperious personalities, in intimate space. The conflict between terminal lies and blazing truth that develops exemplifies what one might call the domestic sublime. She denies that her cancer will kill her and refuses morphine. ![]() Nicola will have alternative "treatment" in the form of Vitamin C injections and cabbage juice from the predatory crooks of the Theodore Institute. She little guesses what is coming to inhabit the spare room of her Melbourne house, when she prepares to receive her terminally ill friend for three weeks. How competent I was! I would get a reputation for competence," Helen thinks smugly. ![]()
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