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Best of the best : modern Australian short stories / edited by Barry Oakley.

Best of the best : modern Australian short stories / edited by Barry Oakley.
Best of the best :
Contents: The sandfly man / Matthew Condon -- Home / Larissa Behrendt -- The wire man / Gavin Walker -- Coming of age / Thea Astley -- American dreams / Peter Carey -- Rite of Spring / Margo Lanagan -- Blood / Karen Hitchcock -- The maze man / Terry Dowling -- The duty to die cheaply / Peter Goldsworthy -- The girl next door / Steve J Spears -- Wedding / Glenda Adams -- The roadtrain of love / Paddy O'Reilly -- Driving the inland road / Julie Gittus -- The airport, the pizzeria, the motel, the rented car and the mysteries of life / Frank Moorhouse -- Night growing longer now / Anthony Lynch -- Point of departure, point of return / Marshall Browne -- Blacksoil country / David Malouf -- Men like Beattie / Liam Davison -- I am monarch of all I survey / Michael Wilding -- Habit / Cate Kennedy -- Locker 1012 / Lily Brett -- The hair and the teeth / Carmel Bird -- Sean / Annette Trevitt -- Serious swimmers / Michael Faber -- Commission / Tim Winton -- Defending the library / Barry Oakley. 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.

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SC820.8/BES
Schools Collection   Port Macquarie . Available .  
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Record Number 461129
ISBN 9781742117454 (pbk.)
Title Best of the best : modern Australian short stories / edited by Barry Oakley.
Publication details Scoresby, Vic. : Five Mile Press, 2009.
Pagination etc. 320 p. ; 20 cm.
Contents note Contents: The sandfly man / Matthew Condon -- Home / Larissa Behrendt -- The wire man / Gavin Walker -- Coming of age / Thea Astley -- American dreams / Peter Carey -- Rite of Spring / Margo Lanagan -- Blood / Karen Hitchcock -- The maze man / Terry Dowling -- The duty to die cheaply / Peter Goldsworthy -- The girl next door / Steve J Spears -- Wedding / Glenda Adams -- The roadtrain of love / Paddy O'Reilly -- Driving the inland road / Julie Gittus -- The airport, the pizzeria, the motel, the rented car and the mysteries of life / Frank Moorhouse -- Night growing longer now / Anthony Lynch -- Point of departure, point of return / Marshall Browne -- Blacksoil country / David Malouf -- Men like Beattie / Liam Davison -- I am monarch of all I survey / Michael Wilding -- Habit / Cate Kennedy -- Locker 1012 / Lily Brett -- The hair and the teeth / Carmel Bird -- Sean / Annette Trevitt -- Serious swimmers / Michael Faber -- Commission / Tim Winton -- Defending the library / Barry Oakley.
Summary Note 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.
Subject Short stories, Australian
Australia fiction
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Added Entry Oakley, Barry
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