Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 293 pages) |
Series |
Australasian literature: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands (text) |
Contents |
His blue period / Deborah Robertson -- The Aquarium at night / Robert Drewe -- The Poetics of space / Karen Hitchcock -- Natural history (World-Swimming) / Patrick West -- Jap floral / Claire Aman -- On the splice / Emily Ballou -- The White hole of Bombay / Nicholas Shakespeare -- Crackers / Rudi Soman -- Distracted by children / Ellen Rodger -- The Valley of Grace / Marion Halligan -- Gardening for pleasure / Tony Birch -- Every cure / Julie Millard -- Turning off the lights / Anna Krien -- Music for airports / Patrick Holland -- The Patient's letter / Will Elliott -- As green as blue / Isabelle Li -- Nine days / Laura Jean McKay -- Isnis / Tim Richards -- Two weeks / Dorothy Johnston -- All the things you couldn't say / Davina Bell -- War against the Ungulates / Bernard Cohen -- The Knabstrupper / A.G. McNeill -- Escargot Postel / Chloe Walker -- Revisions: A Found story / Frank Moorouse -- Meeting Elise / Nam Le -- Big animals / Brenda Walker |
Summary |
In The Best Australian Stories 2008, Delia Falconer brings together the year's most exciting short fiction. Featuring established masters as well as fresh new voices, this is a perfect book for summer and an ideal introduction to Australia's best contemporary writing. 'As a reader, ' Delia Falconer writes, 'I crave what the short story is most suited to deliver: a glimpse into the unpredictability of life, a quick burst of tone and voice, a bittersweet balance of surprising layers.' By turn global and domestic, subversively funny and wrenchingly sad, this year's Best Australian Stories delivers this, and more |
Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed February 25, 2015) |
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In English |
Subject |
Short stories, Australian -- 21st century
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Short stories, Australian.
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Genre/Form |
short stories.
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Short stories.
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Short stories.
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Nouvelles.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Falconer, Delia, 1966-
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