The Best Australian Stories 2011

by Cate Kennedy (Editor)

Overview

'Great short stories have a power like a depth charge, subtext roiling up to the surface at precisely the right moment.' - Cate Kennedy

In The Best Australian Stories 2011, Cate Kennedy presents the most outstanding short fiction of the past year.

These stories take us deep into our past, into strange and surprising parallel universes, and into unexplored corners of the present. Wonderfully eclectic and brimming with new and familiar voices, this is an ideal companion for summer and a perfect introduction to Australia's finest storytellers.

Contributors include Chris Womersley, Karen Hitchcock, Nicholas Jose, Debra Adelaide, Mark Dapin, Marele Day, Louis Nowra, Rodney Hall, Favel Parrett, Mark O'Flynn, Jennifer Mills, Tim Richards, Gretchen Shirm, Michael Sala, Joanne Riccioni, Julie Chevalier, Russell King, Deborah FitzGerald, Rebecca Giggs, Nick Smith, Sarah Holland-Batt, Penny O'Hara, Stephanie Buckle, Kate Rotherham, Miriam Sved, Karen Manton, Sharon Kent, Leah Swann, Cathrine Cole, Liam Davison and Marion Halligan.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781863955485
Publisher:	Black Inc.
Publication date:	11/01/2011
Series:	Best Australian Stories
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.57(d)

Editorial Reviews

‘For a volume that opens in a palliative-care ward and closes in a cemetery, you might expect it to provide a grim reflection of our state, but the craft and care behind the bulk of these stories produces quite the opposite result.’ —Sunday Age

‘Judging by the work here, the present and future of Australian literary culture is in safe hands.’ —Law Society Journal

‘These tales release such an emotional charge that it's hard to read more than one in a sitting.’ —Hobart Mercury

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