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Title The best Australian stories 2008 / edited by Delia Falconer
Published Melbourne, Vic. : Black Inc., 2008

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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)
In English
Subject Short stories, Australian -- 21st century
Short stories, Australian.
Genre/Form short stories.
Short stories.
Short stories.
Nouvelles.
Form Electronic book
Author Falconer, Delia, 1966-