| Description |
xxiv, 329 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
Portable Australian authors
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Portable Australian authors.
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 316-329. |
| Contents |
The Union buries its dead ; Water them geraniums / Henry Lawson -- The chosen vessel / Barbara Baynton -- And women must weep / Henry Handel Richardson -- Happiness / Katharine Susannah Prichard -- The Triskelion / Christina Stead -- Short-shift Saturday / Gavin Casey -- Josie / Vance Palmer -- Trees can speak / Alan Marshall -- The persimmon tree / Marjarie Barnard -- Mother / Judah Waten -- The incense-burner / John Morrison -- Shadow / Peter Cowan -- At Aunt Sophia's ; A double because it's snowing / Hal Porter -- Down at the dump / Patrick White -- The Mateship syndrome / Thelma Forshaw -- The unicorn / Dal Stivens -- Crabs / Peter Carey -- Seeing Mrs. Landers / Thea Astley -- Ore / Murray Bail -- The airport, the pizzaria, the motel, the rented car, and the mysteries of life / Frank Moorhouse -- Green grow the rushes / T. A. G. Hungerford -- Running nicely / Morris Lurie -- Winter Nelis / Elizabeth Jolley -- Sex in Australia from the man's point of view / Michael Wilding -- The rages of Mrs Torrens / Olga Masters -- Ismini / Beverly Farmer -- The courts of the Lord / Fay Zwicki -- Lizards / Barry Hill. |
| Subject |
Short stories, Australian.
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Short stories, Australian. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Hergenhan, Laurie.
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| ISBN |
0702217875 paperback |
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0702217867 |
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