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Where There's Smoke: Outstanding Short Stories by Australian Men
Where There's Smoke presents outstanding short fiction by Australia's finest male writers. These are tales of love, secrets, doubt and torment, the everyday and the extraordinary.
A man sleeps at the site of a massacre and wakes refreshed. An unassuming piano tuner is sent off to contribute to the war effort. A woman with Alzheimer's is dragged along by her interfering son to visit Uluru.
Brilliant, shocking and profound, these tales will leave you reeling in ways that only a great short story can.
D.B.C. Pierre * Nam Le * Rodney Hall * J.M. Coetzee * A.S. Patric * Murray Bail * Tony Birch * David Malouf * Shane Maloney * Tim Winton * Patrick Cullen * Alex Miller * Kim Scott * Liam Davison * Frank Moorhouse * Ryan O'Neill * James Bradley * Patrick Holland * Peter Goldsworthy * Chris Womersley
A man sleeps at the site of a massacre and wakes refreshed. An unassuming piano tuner is sent off to contribute to the war effort. A woman with Alzheimer's is dragged along by her interfering son to visit Uluru.
Brilliant, shocking and profound, these tales will leave you reeling in ways that only a great short story can.
D.B.C. Pierre * Nam Le * Rodney Hall * J.M. Coetzee * A.S. Patric * Murray Bail * Tony Birch * David Malouf * Shane Maloney * Tim Winton * Patrick Cullen * Alex Miller * Kim Scott * Liam Davison * Frank Moorhouse * Ryan O'Neill * James Bradley * Patrick Holland * Peter Goldsworthy * Chris Womersley
240 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 1, 2015
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January 6, 2020
Read these to source stories for R2W and found a few that are useful as well as generally thought-provoking.
May 22, 2020
3.5 ⭐️
November 28, 2016
Wonderful collection of short stories.
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