Description |
1 online resource (214 pages) |
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text file PDF 655KB |
Note |
Edited by Jo Case. |
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Some of these stories have appeared in other publications. |
Access |
National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries Online access with authorization. AU-CaNED |
Summary |
This daring, irreverent short-story collection dissects and explores the conundrums of contemporary life and what it is to be human, through a world very like our own. A corporate satire follows a pair of dark operatives working for a chicken franchise as they take careful revenge on counterfeiters. A coder calculates the odds of her husband's cold developing complications and killing him, in a story told in code. A relationship at breaking point is told via a scrambled timeline of events that works like a puzzle. A man spends his inheritance on technology that will allow him to fly. And an archeologist working for mining companies against the interests of Indigenous communities develops a mysterious psychological condition that causes her to black out and commit extreme acts of generosity -- from the internet. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Australian fiction -- 21st century.
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Australian fiction. |
Chronological Term |
21st century |
Subject |
Short stories.
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Short stories. |
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Human beings -- Fiction.
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Human beings. |
Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Subject |
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
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Interpersonal relations. |
Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
Indexed Term |
Australian. |
Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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Short stories.
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Short stories -- Adult fiction -- Print.
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Added Author |
Case, Jo, editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: 9781743058916 1743058918 (OCoLC)1299258450 |
ISBN |
9781743058916 PDF |
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1743058918 |
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9781743059265 (electronic book) |
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1743059264 (electronic book) |
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9781743059272 |
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1743059272 |
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