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Author Patrić, A. S., author

Title Las Vegas for vegans / A.S. Patrić
Published Melbourne : Transit Lounge Publishing, [2012]
Melbourne : Transit Lounge, [2012]
©2012

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 MELB  827.04 P3141 A23/L  AVAILABLE
Description 223 pages ; 24 cm
regular print
Contents Beckett & Son -- The Mirage Inn -- Below zero -- Boys -- The river -- Hungry moths -- Nothing to do with anything -- Full-scale -- Minerva blues -- The interior -- The Professional Mourners -- Guns n' coffee -- Measured turbulence -- Elysium Zen -- One in a million -- Daughters of Vesuvius -- Murmur -- The Manx heart -- The bronze cow -- Sunlight -- The eternal city -- Cinders & Bugs -- The wife -- Birthday -- The slow fall -- Exit -- Ana Schrodinger -- Fragments of a signal -- Camelot toys -- Scarring wood -- Unsubstance -- Voice of the bee -- Cigarettes & balloons -- Las Vegas for vegans
Summary From Las Vegas to Melbourne, from Europe to a doomed airplane in mid flight, from a seedy motel to the local bookstore, the true setting of these stories is the human heart. A son spends the day at work having left his father dying on the kitchen floor, a woman finds herself unexpectedly alone in a hotel room in Rome, Kafka watches the last journey of the famous Swimmer as he disappears into the Danube, a father abandons his family, yet mysteriously turns up three days later at the Mirage Inn on the edge of the Simpson Desert. Patric's characters are searching for possibilities, truth and lies, the revelations of shadows, and the strange light that shines between tall buildings. This is an original collection of assured, beautiful storytelling of exceptional craft, brimming with humour and compassion
Analysis Australian
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Subject Australian fiction.
Short stories, Australian.
Genre/Form Fiction.
LC no. 2012515214
ISBN 9781921924309 (softcover)
Other Titles Short stories. Selections