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Aug 07, 2011
Velvetink
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Disappointing.
'His characters repeatedly hurl themselves at life and lovers. There is something very powerful and poignant in these stories.' …..so says one reviewer.
For me though - overall I found something ambiguous and essential lacking in the stories. They let me down severely with too few satisfactory resolutions. Maybe that is what short stories are supposed to be about - to leave you wondering?. I don’t know. I like a good twist at the end but this selection left me floundering like a fi ...more
'His characters repeatedly hurl themselves at life and lovers. There is something very powerful and poignant in these stories.' …..so says one reviewer.
For me though - overall I found something ambiguous and essential lacking in the stories. They let me down severely with too few satisfactory resolutions. Maybe that is what short stories are supposed to be about - to leave you wondering?. I don’t know. I like a good twist at the end but this selection left me floundering like a fi ...more
A nice description of the perfect Australian holiday shack: "He knew exactly what he was looking for. It had to be the genuine article. It had to put the city at a respectable distance...No bourgeois suburban brick and tile villa would do. The spirit of the shack had to be right, its character preferebly set somewhere in the 1950s. It would need a properly casual, even run-down, beach air. It should have a verandah to sleep weekend guests, a working septic system, an open fire place and somewher
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There are twelve short stories in this book. "The Last Explorer" was probably my favourite. But "Baby Oil" was good and "The View from the Sandhills" was different but interesting, with the man using ocker language. I guess you could call him an unsavoury Aussie ocker. I enjoyed reading these short stories.
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Read this when I was living in Perth. Excellent stories that capture the atmosphere of the time very well.
Oct 19, 2009
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