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10 Short Stories You Must Read This Year

Robert Drewe,

Anita Heiss

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Feb 12, 2010 Kat at Book Thingo rated it really liked it

Shelves: australian-authors, anthology, in-shelf

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The most startling thing about this anthology is that most of the works feature love stories. I rode the weekend on a wave of literary pleasure.

The collection starts off with Robert Drewe’s brooding story of unrequited love, in which the object of the protagonist’s desire happens to be his best friend’s wife. I very much doubt I’d read this as a novel, but the beauty of the short story is that it usually ends before properly resolving the central dilemma. A View of Mount Warning is no exception, ...more

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Oct 13, 2009 Anne_MB rated it really liked it

Shelves: australian-fiction, short-stories, 2010

A diverse collection of contemporary short stories by established Australian authors. I enjoyed each of these stories very much. It was great to read a story by those authors well known to me and also great to read something by the authors I had never read before.
The diversity of the stories was very appealing.

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Apr 06, 2010 Alane Kataria-Rennie rated it liked it

Some of these Aussie authors were kind of terrible. The characters were so cliche! I don't read a lot of short stories collections so maybe the expectations for characters developed in 20 pages are minimal. ...more

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