Author: Michael Wilding
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
49 stories ranging over 120 years. Stories reflect life in Australia from the early days of hardship to the recognition of a multicultural society and the new agendas for women's, gay and lesbian, and Aboriginal writing.
The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories
Author: Michael Wilding
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
49 stories ranging over 120 years. Stories reflect life in Australia from the early days of hardship to the recognition of a multicultural society and the new agendas for women's, gay and lesbian, and Aboriginal writing.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
49 stories ranging over 120 years. Stories reflect life in Australia from the early days of hardship to the recognition of a multicultural society and the new agendas for women's, gay and lesbian, and Aboriginal writing.
Best of the Best
Author: Barry Oakley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781742117454
Category : Short stories, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From the six story collections Barry Oakley has put together for The Five Mile Press, he's now picked the best - the best of the best! This rich final collection explores the full range of experience - from innocence to awareness, passion to peace, desperation to determination (and at least one quiet triumph). There are twenty-five different worlds between these covers, and their authors will take you on a journey into all of them.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781742117454
Category : Short stories, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From the six story collections Barry Oakley has put together for The Five Mile Press, he's now picked the best - the best of the best! This rich final collection explores the full range of experience - from innocence to awareness, passion to peace, desperation to determination (and at least one quiet triumph). There are twenty-five different worlds between these covers, and their authors will take you on a journey into all of them.
Families
Author: Barry Oakley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Memorable short stories by Cate Kennedy, Tim Winton, David Malouf and many more of Australia's best contemporary writers. Bonding, battling, breaking, the stories in this engrossing collection shed high and lowlights on families from every angle. Heroic mothers, estranged fathers, resentful siblings, children losing their innocence - even a family ghost or two. Some of Australia's finest writers - and some who should be better known - explore the whole range of family life, from the happy to the hopeless, in stories that Barry Oakley has collected with one criterion only: vitality.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Memorable short stories by Cate Kennedy, Tim Winton, David Malouf and many more of Australia's best contemporary writers. Bonding, battling, breaking, the stories in this engrossing collection shed high and lowlights on families from every angle. Heroic mothers, estranged fathers, resentful siblings, children losing their innocence - even a family ghost or two. Some of Australia's finest writers - and some who should be better known - explore the whole range of family life, from the happy to the hopeless, in stories that Barry Oakley has collected with one criterion only: vitality.
Journeys
Author: Barry Oakley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781741784572
Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Modern Australan Short Stories.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781741784572
Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Modern Australan Short Stories.
Encounters
Author: Barry Oakley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The theme is meetings of various kinds, from the erotic and hair- raising to the deeply moving, and the contributors include Sophie Cunningham, David Malouf, Sandy McCutcheon and Tim Winton.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The theme is meetings of various kinds, from the erotic and hair- raising to the deeply moving, and the contributors include Sophie Cunningham, David Malouf, Sandy McCutcheon and Tim Winton.
Secret Lives
Author: Barry Oakley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Anthology of short stories by modern Australian writers. The stories vary widely in theme and style, from science fiction and fantasy to realism. Contributors include Peter Carey, Helen Garner, David Malouf, Lily Brett, Tim Winton, Elizabeth Jolley, Barry Dickins and Sari Wawn. Includes notes on contributors. Edited with a brief introduction to each story by Oakley, a novelist and former literary editor of 'The Australian' newspaper. His previous works include A Salute to the Great McCarthy and Dont Leave Me'.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Anthology of short stories by modern Australian writers. The stories vary widely in theme and style, from science fiction and fantasy to realism. Contributors include Peter Carey, Helen Garner, David Malouf, Lily Brett, Tim Winton, Elizabeth Jolley, Barry Dickins and Sari Wawn. Includes notes on contributors. Edited with a brief introduction to each story by Oakley, a novelist and former literary editor of 'The Australian' newspaper. His previous works include A Salute to the Great McCarthy and Dont Leave Me'.
Modern Australian short stories
Author: Gavin Stodary Casey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780855854430
Category : Short stories, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780855854430
Category : Short stories, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Behind the Front Fence
Author: Barry Oakley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781741244311
Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781741244311
Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Modern Australian Short Stories
The Best Australian Stories
Author: ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459624874
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
The best of the best This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Stories and selects the most outstanding short fiction by the country's finest writers. These stories range widely in style and subject matter: there is drama and comedy, subtlety and extravagance, tales of suspense, love, fantasy, grief and revenge. Together they showcas...
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459624874
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
The best of the best This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Stories and selects the most outstanding short fiction by the country's finest writers. These stories range widely in style and subject matter: there is drama and comedy, subtlety and extravagance, tales of suspense, love, fantasy, grief and revenge. Together they showcas...