When I Saw the Animal

By Bernard Cohen

A brilliant short story collection by awarded novelist and former Vogel winner Bernard Cohen.Parked in by furious rich people, mid-divorce, a man misses his lunchtime gambling session. All the girls named Ella form a diagonal across the teacher's new classroom. Diseased cattle burn in fields around the country it is a cameraman's role to frame the images for TV. A swagman jumps into a billabong, or was he pushed?Bernard Cohen's stories are filled with incisive perspectives, captivating wit and dark, sharp humour.

• Language: English
• Publisher: University of Queensland Press
• Release date: Sep 12, 2018
• ISBN: 9780702261572

Bernard Cohen

Bernard Cohen is the award-winning author of four previous novels and a children's picture book. He won the Australian/Vogel Literary Award for THE BLINDMAN'S HAT and an Arts Council of England Writer's Award for THE ANTI-BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT F. MENZIES. He has been listed as a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist three times and was a University of Technology Sydney Alumnus of the Year. He is founder and director of The Writing Workshop and holds a Doctorate of Creative Arts from UTS. Bernard lives in Sydney.