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- About the Book
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The short stories here were selected by award winning Tasmanian author Amanda Lohrey and tell of a pool game at the Hyde Park Hotel, the inheritance of a broken limestone house in Fremantle, and how the colour of our skin protects us, or not, from inequity, injury and death. Relationships between mothers and daughters, and fathers and daughters, are told through the prisms of birth and death; the struggle of sons to emulate and overcome their fathers on the way to manhood is revealed through an encounter with jellyfish.
Featuring the short story as a literary form, there is an interview with Western Australia’s favourite short story writer, Robert Drewe, and ‘Dark Roots’ by Australia’s renowned short story writer Cate Kennedy is re-printed in this edition.
The poetry, selected by Lucy Dougan, focuses on the intimacy and domesticity of everyday life and love, as well as climate change. Each poem is potent with a meaning immediately accessible to the lay reader.
Fremantle Press author of The Last Whale, Chris Pash, chose the creative non-fiction. These ‘true’ stories take us from the dark territory of rapacious men to encounters with feisty self actualized women.
There is something here for everyone interested in the next best West Australian writing. You will enjoy every page of this beautifully presented volume.
- Categories
- Poetry, Adult Fiction
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Publisher
- Tactile Books
- ISBN13
- 9780980518641
- HB/PB
- Paperback
- Format
- B+ Format (205 x 138mm)
- Others in this Series
- indigo volume 3 2009
- indigo volume 2 2008
- indigo volume 5 2010
- Indigo volume 6 2011
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