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A great selection of Australian shorts. A varied & entertaining selection.
I love the short form. The investment needed is far less than that needed for a novel, but the pay-off is just as satisfying, if not more so. This collection does not disappoint.
This edition of Aus Stories holds together well in terms of the art of the short story. One gem stands out for me though and that's Cate Kennedy's Puppet Show - it gives an example of the kind of writing I have come to expect from Kennedy. She pulls together - using great tension , a story that sends so many strong messages, about tourists, Australia and it's neighbours, and marriage all in one little package. She should be a very well known Australian short story writer of the ilk of Shirley Ha...
An entertaining and varied selection - as with most short story collections by widely different writers, some were more to my taste than others. My favourites were ones that drilled down to the profound and unspeakable loneliness experienced in intimate relationships (Puppet Show by Cate Kennedy, Alphabet by Ryan O'Neill, Manyuk by Mark Smith) and the one I'm still thinking about is The Level Playing Field by Julie Koh, a surreal and very clever fable about privilege, diversity, economic equalit...
In the introduction to this collection, Amanda Lohrey explains what she looks for in a short story - she wants to be told something new, to be surprised by the writing and most of all she looks for what she calls a "hit" - something that leaves her stirred in the same way you feel when you see an astonishing athletic achievement. In the main, this collection delivers on that criteria, although there were some that fell below the radar for me. Those that stirred me the most were John A. Scott's "...
Leggendolo mi sono reso conto che da questa raccolta mi aspettavo un'Australia turistica, quando invece l'Australia non è l'ambientazione obbligatoria (il primo racconto è in Italia, ma abbiamo anche Africa, Giappone, Malesia e Indonesia). Spesso era in qualche dettaglio buttato lì, nomi e atteggiamenti che due anni fa non avrei notato.L'altra sorpresa è stata ricordarmi che un'antologia senza un tema, senza neanche la nazionalità australiana come requisito, scritta da autori diversi e spesso es...
