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The Best Australian Stories: A Ten-Year Collection
The Best Australian Stories: A Ten-Year Collection
The Best Australian Stories: A Ten-Year Collection
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The Best Australian Stories: A Ten-Year Collection

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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 showcase the strength and diversity of Australian fiction at its very best.

Contributors include: Murray Bail, Dorothy Johnston, Anna Krien, Patrick Cullen, Nicholas Shakespeare, Nam Le, Robert Drewe, Mandy Sayer, Paddy O’Reilly, Janette Turner Hospital, Delia Falconer, Kate Grenville, Peter Goldsworthy, Cate Kennedy, Eva Hornung, Gillian Mears, Steven Amsterdam, Tom Cho, Jessica Anderson, Campbell Mattinson, Luke Davies, Emily Ballou, Marion Halligan, Karen Hitchcock, Frank Moorhouse, Will Elliott, Amanda Lohrey, Tim Richards, Tara June Winch, Joan London, Liam Davison, Michael Meehan, Sonya Hartnett, Chloe Walker, Ryan O’Neill, Gerald Murnane and Tim Winton.
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Release dateMar 31, 2011
ISBN9781921870163
The Best Australian Stories: A Ten-Year Collection

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    This is quite a varied collection. Initially I thought I would give it a lower rating, but as I progressed through the book, I found it increasingly appealing. If you pick this up and struggle with it a bit, keep going, gems await you.All the stories demonstrate good writing. They paint vivid pictures and characters. What I found disenchanting at first was that some stories seemed to lack purpose. They have no resolution or revelation. Good writing is nice, but I like for there to be an engaging story. As I made my way through the collection, I found stories that grabbed me. They might have been quirky, or romantic, or just plain entertaining.This is a good resource for writers wanting to see a large collection of good writing, or for anyone wanting to discover Australian writers they might not otherwise encounter.

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